Help me please,please

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Gabriel Cunha
Gabriel Cunha on 31 Mar 2019
Answered: Walter Roberson on 31 Mar 2019
I'm having some difficulties in finding specific codes for something I want in MATLAB, I have to do a job and in that work I load the bible file in .txt in MATLAB with this open file I can do some things with it:
TL = textread ('bible.txt', '% c') ---- With this command I can count the number of letters.
PT = texread ('bible.txt', '% s') ---- With this I count the number of words.
but my difficulty is as follows:
I want a command to count only specific letters in this great text .txt, for example a code that allows to count only the A or only the B, give thanks already to who has read so far. (Forgive my English the same is not the best.)

Answers (2)

Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 31 Mar 2019
Try this:
fileContents = fileread('bible.txt');
fileContents = fileContents - '!'; % Subtract ASCII ! to get numbers.
histogram(fileContents);
grid on;
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Gabriel Cunha
Gabriel Cunha on 31 Mar 2019
Forgiveness for the difficulty of expressing yourself
Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 31 Mar 2019
Try this:
% fileContents = fileread('bible.txt'); % Read in file from disk
% Make known, sample array.
fileContents = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz B ZZZ'
fileContents = upper(fileContents) - 'A' + 1; % Subtract ASCII ! to get numbers.
edges = 1 : 27;
% Show how many of all letters are there via a bar chart.
histObject = histogram(fileContents, edges);
grid on;
% Find out the number of "b" or "B" in the file
% Pass the number of the letter in the alphabet as an index of the Values array of the histogram object.
numberOfB = histObject.Values(2)
% Find out the number of "z" in the file
numberOfZ = histObject.Values(26)

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 31 Mar 2019
[a, ~, aa] = find(accumarray(reshape(fileread('bible.txt'),[],1), 1));
fprintf('%c = %d\n', [a(:).'; aa(:).']);

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