Reading Software Tools again recently, I came across
"wordcount is naive about a construct such as "either/or", which most
people would count as two words...".
GNU wc is naive about this too. Not a bug, but an inaccuracy. Well,
fixing this is very simple. In <textutils>/src/wc.c, the function
"wc" has a switch statement like so:
[...]
switch (*p++)
{
case '\n':
lines++;
/* Fall through. */
case '\r':
case '\f':
case '\t':
case '\v':
case ' ':
[...]
Here, I appended an aditional line:
case '/':
Hardly earth-shattering, I know, but it does make wc -w more accurate.
Paul
