Perform a Word Count on the Copied Text

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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# (.Net)
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; } }