I have a directory of HTML files saved on my computer. I am looking for a way to scan all of them at once, and report statistics on how often words are used. For example: a program that would scan all the files and tell me that the wor d"like" is used 100 times, "a" 200 times, and "he" 12 times. Any ideas how to do this? -Ryan Adams http://members.cox.net/rtadams89/

I think this is outside the scope of "web development". The fact that you are scanning html files is really of no consequence. My suggestion would be to try a desktop search engine such as the free one Google has (I think MS has one too). These tools can search for content within files. I don't know if they report on the number of hits on a particular word though. One problem you may have, however, is if your search contains anything within the "code" itself. For instance if you search for the word "dog" do you only wnat to see instances of that word int he displayed text? because there is also text in the meta information (i.e. ALT tags) that could contain that word. Michael J