Text Field "Statistics" script

[Klaus Major]

Hi Ruben,

> I'm a pretty new user of RunRev and wanted to know whether anybody  
> has a
> slick script (or ideas for one) to calculate the following for a text
> field:

OK, lets see:

> 1.      Total number of words in the text field
the number of words of fld xyz

> 2.      Total number of Paragraphs in the text field
the number of lines of fld xyz

> 3.      Total number of Sentences in the text field
How do you want to define "sentence"?

> 4.      Total number of sentences per paragraph
See above...

> 5.     Average number of words in a sentence
Count alls words of all sentences.
Divide (round) that number by the number of sentences.
:-)

> 6.      Total number of passive verbs (this one would be probably
> involve a small database/flat file to search and compare through?)

Yes, that would surely be necessary...

> Ideas and help are greatly appreciated. Since I don't know much about
> the coding language yet, the more specific the better. Thank you all!

Hope that helps.


Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de