Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Newbie] What to improve in my code

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Frank1981 wrote:

First of all: I'm not sure if this question is allowed here. If not, I apologize

I'm trying to solve the following problem: For each word in a text find the number of occurences for each unique word in the text.

i've come up with the following steps to solve this:  * remove all punctuation except for whitespace and make the text lowercase

A minor point: instead of removing the punctuation, you maybe should convert it to whitespace. Otherwise in texts like "there was a quick,brown fox" (notice the missing space after the comma) you'll have the word "quickbrown" instead of 2 words "quick" and "brown". David.