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From Shaozhong SHI
Subject Re: Counting the number of repeated phrases in a column
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In response to Aw: Counting the number of repeated phrases in a column  (Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>)
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How about split up the value into individual words and keep their orders?
add words up to form individual phrase and ensure that each phrase only consists unique/distinct words
count repeated phrases afterward

How about this?

Regards,

David

On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 at 17:22, Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> wrote:
> There is a short of a function in the standard Postgres to do the following:
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> it is easy to count the number of occurrence of words, but it is rather difficult to count the number of occurrence of phrases.
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> For instance:
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> A cell of value:  'Hello World' means 1 occurrence a phrase.
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> A cell of value: 'Hello World World Hello' means no occurrence of any repeated phrase.
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> But, A cell of value: 'Hello World World Hello Hello World' means 2 occurrences of 'Hello World'.
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> 'The City of London, London' also has no occurrences of any repeated phrase.
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> Anyone has got such a function to check out the number of occurrence of any repeated phrases?

For that to become answerable you may want to define what to
do when facing ambiguity.

Best,
Karsten


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