word-counts
v0.1.9
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Count all the words in a given string or file.
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word-counts
Count all the words in a given string or file and return an object containing word count data.
Installation
Install the package from npm
npm install word-counts
Usage
Provide a string or local filepath containing text which can be scanned in order to populate the word frequency table.
const { countWords } = require("word-counts");
const doc = `Hello, World. This is some example text that
repeats the word test. Usually a test covers multiple topics
but the real test is to learn something by the end of a test.`;
const wordTable = countWords(doc);
console.log(wordTable);
console.log(wordTable.wordCount);
console.log(wordTable.uniqueWordCount);
/*
{
a: { frequency: 2, usage: 6.5 },
by: { frequency: 1, usage: 3.2 },
covers: { frequency: 1, usage: 3.2 },
...
}
32
25
*/
Scan a file:
countWordsInFile("words.md").then(data => {
console.log(data);
});
Methods
countWords(doc)
: Count the frequency of words in a given string.countWordsInFile(file, encoding="utf8")
: Count the frequency of words in a local file.
Attributes
The countWords
and countWordsInFile
functions both return WordMap
objects which contain the following fields:
frequencies
: Object representing the word frequency table.wordList
: A list of all the words.uniqueWordList
: A list of all the unique words.sortedUniqueWordList
: A sorted list of all the unique words.sortedFrequencyList
: A sorted list of word frequency objects.wordCount
: Count of all words.uniqueWordCount
: Count of all unique words.printFrequencies()
: Get a stringified version of the word frequency table.getNthWord(n)
: Get the Nth word from the word list.
Tests
Install dev dependencies:
npm install -d
and run test suite:
npm run test
Contributing
If you find any bugs or would like to suggest a feature, feel free to create an issue.