Character Profiler Help

The Point of It
To find out the frequencies of individual characters in your text file(s). You can find out whether there are any unusual or problem characters in your texts, and can find out frequencies for each letters (in English, "e" should be the most frequent). 
The first 32 codes used in computer storage of text are "control characters" such as tabs, line-feeds and carriage-returns. A plain .txt version of a text should only contain letters, numbers, punctuation and tabs, line-feeds and carriage-returns -- if there are other symbols you do not recognise you may have a .txt file which is really an old WordPerfect or Word .doc in disguise.  

How To Do It
1. Choose a text or a folder. You can type in a complete filename (including drive and folder), and can use wildcards such as "*.txt", or you can browse to find your text or folder.
2. Make sure "sub-folders too" is checked if you want results for that folder and all sub-folders of it, for all files whose specifications you've chosen.
3. If you want to include .zip files, make sure ".zip files too" is checked.
4. Press Analyse.

All files meeting your specifications will be processed.

What You See
After the results have been calculated, you will see a list showing for each character, how many instances of it there are in the file(s) selected and what percentage of the total characters (excluding control characters) that represents. You also get a total of valid characters. 
If there are any Unicode text files these will not be processed but you will get a count of how many there are. 
There will be a copy of your results in the clipboard ready to paste eg. into Word or Excel.