Challenge #182: Word Sleuthing

[jfgirouard]

Done!

[NoraW]

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[SimonSturges]

Like others i couldn't get to the same counts but i understand the logic. 

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[Jonathan-Sherman]

Challenge 182 is done!

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[LiD]

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RegEx tool was the essential component in this workflow.

However, it seems that depending on the pattern specification, the results may be different!

While "\w+" and "\<\w+\>" result the same as the solution demonstrates, the specification "[[:alpha]]+" and "[a-zA-Z]+" will provide different results, as the digits will be excluded. The suggested solution "\<\w+\>" would potentially even recognize 0, 00, 003 etc. as word. Thus this approach may blow off the true number of total words.

It would be really interesting to know, if there's further clarification why the solution has used "\<\w+\>" rather than "[[:alpha]]+" or "[a-zA-Z]+" as pattern.

[tiffany_chen]

I have learned something new from this case. First is a new RegularExpression '\w+' which could eliminate space, tab and all punctuations. The second one is 'Download' tool from Developer tab which is useful when I have to get dynamic data from website. Great learn!

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[payam2]

When looking at words, I thought it makes more sense to look at them all in lower caps so the same words are counted as unique rather than individuals, so my result is different from what was given.

[Federico_Albano]

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[MattBenj]

Not sure if I nailed all of the specifics but I at least got the just of the challenge.

[BrettR]

So many different ways to define what is a word, but I think this gets the main point across.