# Shareware for vote (or string) counting?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shareware-for-vote-or-string-counting/125143>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 22, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shareware-for-vote-or-string-counting/125143 "2002-08-22T22:28:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shareware-for-vote-or-string-counting/125143/1 "2002-08-22T22:28:19Z")

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Inspired by [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2387921#post2387921) thread.

Does anyone know of shareware that could help count votes on the SDMB. I’m thinking of something that goes through a long string of text and counts recurrences of smaller strings within the string. The pollster could cut and paste the thread content into a single long text file, and run the program on that file. You’d get a lot of false recurrent votes for words like “the” and soforth, but the genuine votes should show through easily enough, barring typos by posters. That almost never happens! 😛