Challenge #182: Word Sleuthing

[binuacs]

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[NicoleJohnson]

Like a good detective, when I discovered that my results were different than the provided solution, I did a bit of investigation to figure out how I was defining this differently so that I could get to the same answer... and then I also provided what I believe to be a "better" one in the context of "what makes a word".

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The solution that matches: Key to getting it to match was to parse on alllll the punctuation markers, and to define a "word" as basically anything that wasn't punctuation. 

The solution that feels more accurate to me: Parse on all punctuation except single quote (to keep "words" like isn't, won't, etc.)... and then filter out anything that is left that does not contain letters. I also put all remaining words in lowercase so that The and the would be counted as the same word. Smaller list of words, but they feel more like "words" so I liked this result better 🙂

 

 

Cheers!

NJ

[Luke_C]

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Solution is slightly different due to ignoring case

[JP_SDAK]

I downloaded file directly, removed all punctuation, and ignored case.  Caching made this way easier to work with.  I also got different totals than the answer, but the words appear to be the same.

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[Rhys1]

Got different answers but my attempt nonetheless 

[apathetichell]

numbers are slightly off but the number of total words matches the output. I changed everything to the same case so that could be part of the issue. Opted for the ultra simplistic tokenize ever words to row solution...

[DXC]

With text2columns I got similar results.

[rcarog]

Solution attached.

[Laurap1228]

My file provides two different solutions, one that matches numbers in the Solution and one that calculates the percentages when numbers aren't counted as words.

Are numbers words?

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[mdsalmankhan89]

here is my solution !