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Is there way to find the number of times "are" occurs in this list:

are are thi
thi are are
are are are
are thi are
thi thi thi
thi thi are
are are thi

The result should be 12

Search | Replace... (<F8>):

Find what: \bare\b
Replace with: are

[X] Regular expression

Replace All

The number of replacements is displyed in the status bar.

You can undo the replacement to keep your editing history in good order.

Thanks!

Is there way to find the number of times "goat" occurs in this list:

goat goat thi
thi goat goat
goat goat goat
goat thi goat
thi thi thi
thi thi goat
goat goat thi

The result should be 12

Didn't I already answer that?

Yes.

It worked when the string is 'are' but not when the string is 'goat'

(The error says: "Invalid back reference: specified capturing group does not exist. The error occurred while parsing the regular expression:

'\g>>>HERE>>>oat\b'

Not
\goat\b
but
\bgoat\b

\b matches a word boundary. It stops are maching in, for example, claret.

Thank you

Alternatively use the "Mark all" button, which will also print in the status bar how often it matched.

No it doesn't. It shows how many lines were marked, not how many matches were found, despite its indicating otherwise.

You are right, didn't know this. Looking into the manual (speak: help file) however it's already explained as "marks every line" instead of every "occurance". This should be fixed (status bar should also use the word "line") and enhanced (another button called "count matches").