Hi people, I'm trying to make a program that reads and counts words and their frequency. After a few days trying I just make the program read a text, counts the words and everything BUT just if there's no more than one ' ' space character at a time. And for the line break (because that's two characters) I did a little trick (I'm really not proud of it).
My teacher recommend me to read the text line by line. How can I do this from a memo? This would take off the line break problem, but then... how can I solve the thing about the space character? I've tried a lot of things, and I'm new with Delphi and at programming, any help is apreciated! Thanks!

Code so far:

begin
  someText := memo_txtfile.text;
  oneWord := '';

  s := TStringList.Create;
  for i := 1 to length(someText) do begin
    aux:=ord(someText[i]);

    if aux=10 then begin end else begin 

    if aux<33 then begin 

      idxFound := s.indexof(oneWord);

      if idxFound >= 0 then begin
        iCount := integer(s.objects[idxFound]);
        s.Objects[idxFound] := TObject(iCount + 1);
      end
      else begin

        s.AddObject(oneWord, TObject(1));
      end;
      oneWord := '';
    end
    else begin
      oneWord := oneWord + someText[i];
    end;
  end;
  end;

  if oneWord <> '' then
  begin
    idxFound := s.indexof(oneWord);
  end;
    if idxFound >= 0 then begin
      iCount := integer(s.objects[idxFound]);
      s.Objects[idxFound] := TObject(iCount + 1);
    end
    else begin
      s.AddObject(oneWord, TObject(1));
    end;
   grid.RowCount:=s.Count+1;
  // put the results on the screen in a stringgrid.

   quicksort(s, 0, s.Count-1);
  for i := 0 to s.Count - 1 do begin
    grid.Cells[0,i+1]:= intToStr(i+1) + '.-';
    grid.cells[1,i+1] := s[I];
    grid.Cells[2,i+1] := intToStr(integer(s.Objects[i]));
  end;
end;

Solved how to read line by line. Now I keep not knowing the thing about the space character.

Solved, may upload results to blog. Thanks anyway.

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