How to do it
1. | Choose one or more texts 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. | If you want to study one text only, just choose one text, but you may choose a whole folderful or more by using the "sub-folders too" option. |
3. | Press Analyse. |
The display shows details of your selected text, and if you click the Source Text tab you can see the original text. (If you have analysed a whole set of text files the Source Text tab will show only that last one.)
Legend
code the Unicode code of
character the character
type distinguishing punctuation, digits, letters
% percentage of the total number of characters in the text(s)
freq. number of occurrences of that character
<Enter> number of carriage-returns and line-feeds in the text, indicated in red.
Sort
Click the header to sort the data:
The letter e (lower case) represents over eight percent, closely followed by t.
Copy
Copies the data to the clipboard, ready to be pasted for example into Excel.
See also: settings.
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