Word analysis

[anthonyhuben]

In Highland, there is a basic tool to analyze how many unique words are in a script and the frequency of them (more than once). I feel like a tool to say what are the most common words are and how many times they are used would be way more useful. Also, whether the same word is used twice in a sentence. Basically a find and replace with graphs/charts.

Here's what it looks like in Highland...

[lmparppei]

If you want to create this sort of plugin, it's pretty easy.

Just iterate through each line, split its .string by spaces, remove punctuation etc. and then map an integer to the word:

let dict = {}

for (const line of Beat.lines()) {
    const words = line.string.split(" ")
    for (const word of words) {
        // Somehow remove punctuation here, maybe check if a character by this name exists etc.
        // After that, add to word count:
        if (dict[word] == null) dict[word] = 0
        dict[word] += 1
    }
}

/* You'll end up with a dictionary like this:
{
    // word: count, for example:
    "all": 3,
    "the": 6,
    "words": 2
}
*/