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COUNT is a simple program for analyzing text files. It makes
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certain reasonable assumptions that will be valid for most text files.
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For example, it assumes that terminating punctuation (period, question
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mark, or exclamation point) marks the end of a sentence. COUNT will
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produce incorrect results on files that contain abbreviations, dot
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codes, or other uses of terminating punctuation. The program uses a
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constant for the number of vowels per syllable. This number is based
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on analysis of several typical files. Finally, Y is assumed to be a
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consonant at the start of a word, but a vowel within a word.
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During the session you'll need to know that this file contains 796
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bytes, 630 characters, 588 letters, 226 vowels, 127 words, 13 lines,
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and 8 sentences.
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