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Perform a Word Count on the Copied Text

Description	Takes the copied clipboard text and perform a word count (among other things). A message box is displayed showing the statistics for your copied text.
Language	C#
Minimum Version	3.3+
Created By	Splat
Contributors	-
Date Created	Aug 19, 2014
Date Last Modified	Aug 19, 2014

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using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Web;
using System.Windows.Forms;

public static class ClipboardFusionHelper
{
    public static string ProcessText(string text)
    {
        // Name:                Word Count
        // Description:    Pops up a message box that shows some statistics about the text on the clipboard, such as word count, number of characters, number of lines, etc.

// which message layout do we want to display?
        // feel free to add your own layouts below
        int intLayout = 1;    // possible values are 1 or 2

// create an array of our objects
        // you can add more here as needed, but there may be limited space to display the results in the message box that pops
        objWordCount[] arrWordCount = new objWordCount[2];
        arrWordCount[0] = new objWordCount("Text", text);
        arrWordCount[1] = new objWordCount("No HTML Tags", HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(Regex.Replace(text, @"<[\w\W]+?>", string.Empty)));

// string used to store our word count message
        string strMessage = string.Empty;

// different layouts can be added here
        // depending on your OS, you may have to tweak the layouts a little bit
        switch(intLayout)
        {
            default:

// this is the default layout

// create our word count message
                for(int i = 0; i < arrWordCount.Length; i++)
                {
                    strMessage +=
                        (arrWordCount[i].title.ToUpper() + " ").PadRight(50, '\x2013') + "\r\n" +
                        "Words " + ("  " + arrWordCount[i].words.ToString()).PadLeft(12, '_') + "\r\n" +
                        "Characters " + ("  " + arrWordCount[i].chars.ToString()).PadLeft(12, '_') + "\r\n" +
                        "Characters (no spaces) " + ("  " + arrWordCount[i].charsNoSpaces.ToString()).PadLeft(12, '_') + "\r\n" +
                        "Characters (no breaks) " + ("  " + arrWordCount[i].charsNoBreaks.ToString()).PadLeft(12, '_') + "\r\n" +
                        "Characters (no breaks or spaces) " + ("  " + arrWordCount[i].charsNoSpacesBreaks.ToString()).PadLeft(12, '_') + "\r\n" +
                        "Lines " + ("  " + arrWordCount[i].lines.ToString()).PadLeft(12, '_') + "\r\n" +
                        "Average characters per word \x2009" + ("  " + (String.Format("{0:0.0}",((double)arrWordCount[i].charsNoSpacesBreaks / (double)arrWordCount[i].words)))).PadLeft(12, '_') + "\r\n" +
                        "Average characters per line \x2009" + ("  " + (String.Format("{0:0.0}",((double)arrWordCount[i].charsNoBreaks / (double)arrWordCount[i].lines)))).PadLeft(12, '_') + "\r\n" +
                        "Average words per line \x2009" + ("  " + (String.Format("{0:0.0}",((double)arrWordCount[i].words / (double)arrWordCount[i].lines)))).PadLeft(12, '_') + "\r\n" +
                        "\r\n\r\n";
                }

break;

case 2:

// this layout has a problem if there are more then two word count objects, use the default layout instead

// set the length of our titles to a maximum of 12 characters (we can't have them being too long in this layout)
                for(int i = 0; i < arrWordCount.Length; i++)
                {
                    if(arrWordCount[i].title.Length > 12) arrWordCount[i].title = arrWordCount[i].title.Substring(0, 12);
                }

// create our word count message
                strMessage = string.Empty;
                strMessage += "Clipboard Word Count";
                for(int i = 0; i < arrWordCount.Length; i++) strMessage += new string(' ', 5) + (arrWordCount[i].title).PadLeft(12, '\x2002');
                strMessage += "\r\n" + new string('\x203E', 60) + "\r\nWords";
                for(int i = 0; i < arrWordCount.Length; i++) strMessage += new string(' ', 5) + (" " + arrWordCount[i].words.ToString()).PadLeft(12, '_');
                strMessage += "\r\n\r\nCharacters";
                for(int i = 0; i < arrWordCount.Length; i++) strMessage += new string(' ', 5) + (" " + arrWordCount[i].chars.ToString()).PadLeft(12, '_');
                strMessage += "\r\nCharacters (no spaces)";
                for(int i = 0; i < arrWordCount.Length; i++) strMessage += new string(' ', 5) + (" " + arrWordCount[i].charsNoSpaces.ToString()).PadLeft(12, '_');
                strMessage += "\r\nCharacters (no breaks)";
                for(int i = 0; i < arrWordCount.Length; i++) strMessage += new string(' ', 5) + (" " + arrWordCount[i].charsNoBreaks.ToString()).PadLeft(12, '_');
                strMessage += "\r\nCharacters (no spaces or breaks)";
                for(int i = 0; i < arrWordCount.Length; i++) strMessage += new string(' ', 5) + (" " + arrWordCount[i].charsNoSpacesBreaks.ToString()).PadLeft(12, '_');
                strMessage += "\r\n\r\nLines";
                for(int i = 0; i < arrWordCount.Length; i++) strMessage += new string(' ', 5) + (" " + arrWordCount[i].lines.ToString()).PadLeft(12, '_');
                strMessage += "\r\n\r\nAverage characters per word";
                for(int i = 0; i < arrWordCount.Length; i++) strMessage += new string(' ', 5) + "\x2009" + (" " + String.Format("{0:0.0}",((double)arrWordCount[i].charsNoSpacesBreaks / (double)arrWordCount[i].words))).PadLeft(12, '_');
                strMessage += "\r\nAverage characters per line";
                for(int i = 0; i < arrWordCount.Length; i++) strMessage += new string(' ', 5) + "\x2009" + (" " + String.Format("{0:0.0}",((double)arrWordCount[i].charsNoBreaks / (double)arrWordCount[i].lines))).PadLeft(12, '_');
                strMessage += "\r\nAverage words per line";
                for(int i = 0; i < arrWordCount.Length; i++) strMessage += new string(' ', 5) + "\x2009" + (" " + String.Format("{0:0.0}",((double)arrWordCount[i].words /(double)arrWordCount[i].lines))).PadLeft(12, '_');

break;
        }

// display our word count message box
        MessageBox.Show (
            strMessage.Trim(),
            "Clipboard Word Count".PadRight(100, '\x2002'),
            MessageBoxButtons.OK,
            MessageBoxIcon.None,
            MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1,
            MessageBoxOptions.RightAlign
            );

// we don't want to alter the original text on the clipboard, so return the same text as we received
        return text;
    }

}

public class objWordCount
{
    public string title;
    public int pages;
    public int words;
    public int chars;
    public int charsNoSpaces;
    public int charsNoBreaks;
    public int charsNoSpacesBreaks;
    public int lines;

public objWordCount(string strTitle, string strInput)
    {
        title               = strTitle;
        pages               = new Regex(@"\f", RegexOptions.Multiline).Matches(strInput).Count + 1;  // based on form feed characters, not very common these days
        words               = new Regex(@"\b\w+\b", RegexOptions.Multiline).Matches(strInput).Count;
        chars               = strInput.Length;
        charsNoSpaces       = Regex.Replace(strInput, @"[ \t\v]", string.Empty).Length;
        charsNoBreaks       = Regex.Replace(strInput, @"[\f\r\n]", string.Empty).Length;
        charsNoSpacesBreaks = Regex.Replace(strInput, @"[\s]", string.Empty).Length;
        lines               = new Regex(@"[\n\r]{1,2}", RegexOptions.Multiline).Matches(strInput).Count + 1;
    }
}

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