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I need tutorial explanation of regular expressions to matching word count of a pdf.

Can anyone help me with links?

Posted 31-Aug-13 7:35am

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CHill60 · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-31T08:00:00

Solution 1

Generic tutorial on RegEx
http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html[^]

Specific word counting example
http://www.dotnetperls.com/word-count[^]

Article on extracting text from a PDF here on CodeProject
Converting PDF to Text in C#[^]

Posted 31-Aug-13 8:00am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 31-Aug-13 22:39pm

Good links, 5ed.
—SA

V.Lorz · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-31T11:39:00

Solution 2

Also you may try this site: http://regexlib.com/[^]. You can search their database for ready made expressions and even test your own, or other's, expressions (click in the 'Regex Tester' link near the top of the page).

Hope it's usefull for you too.

Posted 31-Aug-13 11:39am

V.Lorz

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Joezer BH 1-Sep-13 6:50am

5ed!