> -----Original Message----- > From: Marco Behnke [mailto:marco@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 19 August 2012 06:39 > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: How do I do count the occurrence of each word? > > Am 19.08.12 06:59, schrieb tamouse mailing lists: > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:44 PM, John Taylor-Johnston > > <jt.johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I want to parse this text and count the occurrence of each word: > >> > >> Sample Output: > >> > >> determined = 4 > >> fire = 7 > >> patrol = 3 > >> theft = 6 > >> witness = 1 > >> witnessed = 1 > >> [...] > > and then you just run through the words building an associative > array > > by incrementing the count of each word as the key to the array: > > > > foreach ($words as $word) { > > $freq[$word]++; > > } > > Please an existence check to avoid incrementing not set array keys > > foreach ($words as $word) { > if (array_key_exists($word, $freq)) { > $freq[$word] = 1; > } else { > $freq[$word]++; > } > } Erm... $freq = array_count_values($words) (http://php.net/array_count_values) Cheers! Mike -- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Developer, Libraries and Learning Innovation, Portland PD507, City Campus, Leeds Metropolitan University, Portland Way, LEEDS, LS1 3HE, United Kingdom E: m.ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx T: +44 113 812 4730 To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm
