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# 1  
Old 07-15-2013
How to count words number for each paragraph?
Hi, I have file like this:

Code:
>number1
dlejreoreltedgerere
dgtrtryr
>number2
dkfdjlgdjfeiflefjdfidlfjdifelfjefe
fjdlfjdkfjdlfdjlfdjlfjdigeo
gjelreoureofouererg
>number4
dklfdjfoeueoruer
fjeorueotueoirueorueorueore
gjoeoueorueoreuroerueor
joeuroerueorue

How can i know how many words for each ">number" ?

Thanks!!
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 07-15-2013 at 01:04 PM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 07-15-2013
You mean you wish to count the number of lines after a separator pattern is matched?
Code:
perl -ne 'if (/>(number\d+)/){print "$num $count\n";$num=$1;$count=0;}else{$count++}' filename

# 3  
Old 07-15-2013
I want to know how many words. For example:

Code:
>number1
dlejreoreltedgerere
dgtrtryr

number1 (from "d“ to ”r") has 27 words in total



Quote:
Originally Posted by Skrynesaver
You mean you wish to count the number of lines after a separator pattern is matched?
Code:
perl -ne 'if (/>(number\d+)/){print "$num $count\n";$num=$1;$count=0;}else{$count++}' filename

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 07-15-2013 at 01:04 PM.. Reason: code tags
# 4  
Old 07-15-2013
I presume, you mean characters, not words, excluding newline characters, spaces ?
Try something like:
Code:
awk 'NR>1{printf "%s: ", $1; $1=x; print gsub(/./,x)}' OFS= RS=\> file

or
Code:
awk '/>/{if(t) print t; printf "%s: ",$2; t=0; next}{t+=length} END{print t}' FS=\> file

Output:
Code:
number1: 27
number2: 80
number4: 80

# 5  
Old 07-15-2013
Thanks!!
The code works great!!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
I presume, you mean characters, not words, excluding newline characters, spaces ?
Try something like:
Code:
awk 'NR>1{printf "%s: ", $1; $1=x; print gsub(/./,x)}' OFS= RS=\> file

or
Code:
awk '/>/{if(t) print t; printf "%s: ",$2; t=0; next}{t+=length} END{print t}' FS=\> file

Output:
Code:
number1: 27
number2: 80
number4: 80

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