On Thursday, 27 January 2022, Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 5:23 PM Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > with s as (select 'Hello World Hello World' as sentence)
> > select
> > phrase,
> > array_upper(string_to_array((select sentence from s), phrase), 1) -
> > 1 as occurrances
> > from
> > (
> > select array_to_string(x, ' ') as phrase
> > from
> > (
> > select distinct v[a:b] x
> > from regexp_split_to_array((select sentence from s), ' ') v
> > cross join lateral generate_series(1, array_upper(v, 1)) a
> > cross join lateral generate_series(a + 1, array_upper(v, 1)) b
> > ) q
> > ) q;
>
> Simplified to:
> select distinct array_to_string(v[a:b], ' ') phrase, count(*) as
> occurrences
> from regexp_split_to_array('Hello World Hello World', ' ') v
> cross join lateral generate_series(1, array_upper(v, 1)) a
> cross join lateral generate_series(a + 1, array_upper(v, 1)) b
> group by 1;
>
> phrase │ occurances
> ─────────────────────────┼────────────
> World Hello │ 1
> Hello World Hello │ 1
> Hello World │ 2
> Hello World Hello World │ 1
> World Hello World │ 1
>
> merlin
>
How about knock unique words into discrete joint up strings? Then check
whether there is any repeated words?
Regards,
David
