If strResponse and w.Text are equal, Word adds 1 to intWords—the number of occurrences of strResponse—the user’s input value. This loop compares every word in the document to strResponse.

Linux includes a number of ways for counting lines, words and characters in text and for making modifications that help count the words. Some are just a bit more complex than others.

Similarly, the grep command can be used with wc to count the occurrences of a specific word in a file. If you wanted to count the number of times 'Linux' appears in 'file1', you would use grep -o ...

Notepad does not have a word counter. If you wish to count words in a Notepad TXT file, here are some workarounds to help you get going.