- From: Matthew Smith <matt@kbc.net.au>
- Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 08:56:50 +0930
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
David Dorward wrote: >>Does anyone know whether it is possible to check for the number of >>characters in a block of text? > > It is. How you do that rather depends on the programming language you > are working in. > > Simple Perl example: > > perl -e "print scalar split '', 'The quick brown fox'"; > And similarly, one can do an approximate word count by counting white space: perl -e "print scalar split /\s/, 'The quick brown fox'"; I started writing a CGI programme to count words, mean word length, "Top 10" used words, etc. The user just pastes text into a form. I might be persuaded to resurrect this and run it on one of my sites if anyone thinks it would be worthwhile. Saves having to have specific software running on a machine. On a similar subject - would anyone care to nominate any algorithms for automatic (approximate) testing of readability, like Flesh-Kincaid, etc? Cheers M -- Matthew Smith South Australia http://www.kbc.net.au
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