' Returns a Hashtable whose keys are the unique words in a source string' and whose elements are the number of occurrences of each word'' Example:' ' Dim de As DictionaryEntry' For Each de In GetWordOccurrences(sourceText)' Console.WriteLine("'{0}' = {1} time(s), de.Key, de.Value)' Next'' Requires the following Imports' Imports System.Collections.SpecializedFunction GetWordOccurrences(ByVal source As String) As Hashtable ' this holds the result - we need case insensitivity Dim res As Hashtable = CollectionsUtil.CreateCaseInsensitiveHashtable() ' find the first match Dim m As System.Text.RegularExpressions.Match m = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(source, "w+") ' loop while a word is found Do While m.Success If res(m.Value) Is Nothing Then ' the word isn't there yet res.Add(m.Value, 1) Else ' increment the number of occurrences found so far res(m.Value) = CInt(res(m.Value)) + 1 End If ' skip to next word m = m.NextMatch() Loop ' return the Hashtable Return resEnd Function
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