program to copy, paste, and count words

[lozaning]

can some one point me in the right direction as to how to do this. i need to wright(or if you by randomly have one, that works to) a program that would take the first 4 words of every syntence, and the number of owrds in the syntence, and put that into a exel, or other spread sheet. so that

"the quick brown fox died slowly" goes into the spread sheet as

the quick brown fox 6


i would like to do this to papers that are several pages long

 

[drizzt81]

can some one point me in the right direction as to how to do this. i need to write (or if you by random chance happen to have one, that works to) a program that would take the first 4 words of every sentence, and the number of words in the sentence, and put that into a exel, or other spread sheet. so that

"the quick brown fox died slowly" goes into the spread sheet as

the quick brown fox 6


i would like to do this to papers that are several pages long

I fixed that for you.

people may want to know what format your source document is in, i.e. PDF, plain-text or .doc.

 

[jizzypop]

i just whipped this up, works okay but the sentences have to be well formed.

just copy the text and paste it into the box.

http://www.jizzypop.com/program.php


*note: abbreviations or other things that use periods not supported (ie: Dr., Mr., Mrs., etc)