A pretty good heuristic for matching English words. : scan « String « Ruby






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A pretty good heuristic for matching English words.


class String
  def word_count
    frequencies = Hash.new(0)
    downcase.scan(/(\w+([-'.]\w+)*)/) { |word, ignore| frequencies[word] += 1 }
    return frequencies
  end
end

%{"this is a test."}.word_count








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