Hermetic Word Frequency Counter Advanced 9.01

The Advanced Version does everything that the standard version does, so this page explains only the functions of the Advanced Version which are not present in the standard version (such as the ability to count words in multiple files and the ability to count phrases as well as words). Thus the user manual for the standard version should be read before (or after) reading this page (but note that the appearance of the main window and of the Set parameters window differ in the Advanced Version).
The term word usually means a word in a natural language such as English or French, but for this software it has an extended meaning:
In the standard version a word is any sequence of characters consisting of letters from a European language plus (optionally) hyphens, numerals, underscores, colons, periods, apostrophes,-signs, and forward and backward slashes.
In the Advanced Version a word may (optionally) also include ampersands, grave accents, commas and parentheses (the last two thus allowing names of chemical compounds to be treated as words).
The standard version has only one mode of operation: count-all. The Advanced Version has two different modes of operation: count-all and count-only.
In count-all mode the software scans one or more files, or text on the clipboard, and counts the number of occurrences of the different words.
In count-only mode it scans one or more files, or text on the clipboard, and counts the occurrences only of a specified set of words or phrases.
The words (and phrases) found can be listed alphabetically or by frequency. In count-only mode the names of the files in which the words and phrases are found can be displayed, together with their frequencies of occurrence in each file.
There are five main features in the Advanced Version which are not present in the standard version:


The ability to count phrases as well as words.
The ability to scan not just one file but all files in a folder, and optionally in all subfolders,......