Doesn't get much more OT than this but I'm stuck so I'm "casting my net
fairly wide"..

I need a program to count the occurrence of each separate word in a
document.
eg how many of each of "why" , "what", "elephant", "aardvark" etc (NOT ju=
st
the total number of words).

I've done a substantial web search and there seem to be some such availab=
le
but those I can find are written for other platforms than mine.
This seems to be a favourite university assignment but the results don't
seem to get posted.
I could write one myself but the task seems less trivial than it first
appeared and to do so MUST be reinventing the wheel.

So - does anyone know where I can get such a program (preferably free).

Source             Microsoft Word
                                  or a format that it can save in
                                   eg HTML, RTF etc).
                          NOT plain ASCII
                                  as there are special characters
                                  which would get lost.

Platform           PC  / Windows (sorry)


Here's a sample of the text to be converted (with some of the accented
characters missing due to being in plain text.)

  Moses ntiaka Josua
  32 Kwaro Moses=E9n taokeyak=E1mp kar
  Kisim Bek 1-2.
  Kwaromp arop tokwae Josep, t=E1 maomp naeoun=E1p kuri wokwaek surumpwia=
pono.
  Aeapo maok, maomp y=E7ri fekn=E1mp forokorinapao k=E1pae kare fourouria=
 kantri
  Isip mek fopwen=E1pia akwap. T=E1 wakmwaek Isip f=E1r=E1kapan poukeyak=E1=
mp wour=E9kam
  king Fero te Josep=E9n m=E9r mo. Aeria mao nken=E1mp fek te Israel f=E1=
r=E1kap te
  k=E1pae karea wae, t=E1 Isip f=E1r=E1kap s=E9rr=E1, "Am f=E1r=E1kap te =
k=E1pae karea wae
  napon. T=E1 ankwap fi arop koropea nomo yorowar napo te Israelo kuri no=
mp
  yopor-aropan yaewouria nomwan yorowar mwarea napon. Ae mwarea napara no=
mo
  man k=E1pae n=E9nk n=E1nko, nomp yae ankore mek yak=E1pan=E1pono."

The language is native to a few thousand people in Western highland Papua
New Guinea just next to the border with Irian Jaya. Antone who has read t=
his
far can probably hazard a guess as to the nature of the content from this
information and the somewhat english sounding nature of a few of the word=
s.
This extract is from a set of Old Testament stories and there are other
related documents.


TIA

            Russell McMahon

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