My problem is that I have a bunch of text files in a folder. I want a proggie that can calculate the word count for all the files (combined), so that I can pay my writer accordingly. I have wasted the last hour and still haven't found a solution. Any solutions/sofware? I know word can calculate a single file, but I dont want to do it manually. I want to check the word count for the all 50 .txt files in one go.
You can try http://www.anycount.com/ The software is not free, but they offer a free trial. It's not 100% fully automated, but it's much easier than manually insert the text in Words.
Check from below given link (if any software helpful to you). http://www.exefind.com/count-words/ DON.
Ok, found something that was exactly what I wanted. And freeware too http://bluefive.pair.com/txtcollector.htm Funny how people good at SEO suck at googling HAHA
It seems txtcollector does a lot of other work too. But your requirement is to just know the total count of the words.
Yea, what it does is merge all the files into 1 txt I open the new .txt in editplus and find the wordcount
You have to do it manually. It only take you an hour or less time to finish. Or you can stats the word count , then add the word counts of all 50 txt files.
it's very easy to do a program in C that does just that... it's no more than 50 lines of code. Or if you're a Linux or Mac user you can just use the wc (word count) tool, just open up a shell window in the folder with your .txt files and write something like "wc -w *.txt", you'll see the count immediately.
too bad i dont have a linux box. yea, C, I could do that. I prolly wont, coz i got it sorted, but it'd be a fun thing to do on sunday.