Suppose I have a column of arbitrary length where each cell contains a string of text. Is there a way to determine what words appear most frequently in the column (not knowing in advance which words to check) and subsequently order these words along with their frequencies in a two column table? Would VBA be best for this task?
As an example, a cell might contain the string "This is a string, and the # of characters inthis string is>0." (errors intentional)
Select a portion of column A and run this small macro ( the table will be placed in cols. B & C :
Sub Ftable()
Dim BigString As String, I As Long, J As Long, K As Long
BigString = ""
' Add code to sum both "All" and "all" ' Add code to separate "." "!" etc. from the word preceeding them so that word ' is also counted in the total. For example: "all." should not be reported as 1 ' "all." but "all" be added to the total count of "all" words. ' Would you publish this new code?
For Each r In Selection
BigString = BigString & " " & r.Value
Next r
BigString = Trim(BigString)
ary = Split(BigString, " ")
Dim cl As Collection
Set cl = New Collection
For Each a In ary
On Error Resume Next
cl.Add a, CStr(a)
Next a
For I = 1 To cl.Count
v = cl(I)
Cells(I, "B").Value = v
J = 0
For Each a In ary
If a = v Then J = J + 1
Next a
Cells(I, "C") = J
Next I
End Sub
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