So is this just like a basis for building something like sentiment analysis? I can't think of another reason you would want to be able to count words/letters
There are a lot of practical applications for counting! For example, determining the bytes of a file can help determine the size (keep in mind you can run this on images, pdfs, etc), determining the word count could be useful in situations where you’re limited to a certain number of words (articles less than 500 words for a newspaper), or a term paper that has to be 2000 words of more. Another good use case is to check for hidden characters, but there’s plenty more cases, however you’re right in that it is commonly used as a piece of a much larger pipeline or toolchain.
This website is awesome, always good to build projects with real world functionality, thanks for the share!
It really is! I also really like codecrafters, but its a bit different and a paid resource.
So is this just like a basis for building something like sentiment analysis? I can't think of another reason you would want to be able to count words/letters
There are a lot of practical applications for counting! For example, determining the bytes of a file can help determine the size (keep in mind you can run this on images, pdfs, etc), determining the word count could be useful in situations where you’re limited to a certain number of words (articles less than 500 words for a newspaper), or a term paper that has to be 2000 words of more.
Another good use case is to check for hidden characters, but there’s plenty more cases, however you’re right in that it is commonly used as a piece of a much larger pipeline or toolchain.