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[Monte Goulding]

Hmm... is w something more than a string... how could it have a count?

SQL uses distinct... might be good to use that...

commonest??? ;-)

Also... why are we dropping repeat?

Here's something nice: ordered repeats ;-)

How about:

put file filePath into fileString
filter the characters of fileString with "(?i)[a-z]"
repeat for each distinct word theWord with count theCount ordered by theCount numeric descending
   put theWord,theCount &cr after theList
   if the number of lines of theList = 10 then exit repeat
end repeat

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