How to count number of words in a text file?

I have a text file with a large number of words, 'filename.txt'.

I have a column of words 'A'.

    Example:

A = 
    HJK.BT
    KLP.OK
    POL.ST

I want to go through column A and count how many times each of the words in column A appears in the text file. How can I do this? I tried 'textscan' but have had no luck.

Basically, I want to end up with something like:

Column A   # of Times Occurred
HJK.BT     3
KLP.OK     4
POL.ST     2

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

A={'HJK.BT'
  'KLP.OK'
  'HJK.BT'
  'POL.ST'
  'HJK.BT'
  'POL.ST'}
[ii,jj,kk]=unique(A)
freq=accumarray(kk,1)
out=[ii num2cell(freq)]

[Sandy]

But how can I see how many times the words in Column A occur in the text file?

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Can you post a sample of your text file?

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

A={'HJK.BT'
  'KLP.OK'
  'POL.ST'}
text='HJK.BT dsdlsd  sd KLP.OK ddd HJK.BT4  ss 14c KLP.OK ddsfsf f   ff POL.ST HJK.BT'
for k=1:numel(A)
  freq(k)=numel(regexp(text,A{k}))
end

[Sandy]

I couldn't post it, it was marked as spam but basically it's a very large text file with multiple columns of data. I want to search how many times each word in Column A occurs in the WHOLE text file.

Column A is NOT part of the text file, it's separate.

[Sandy]

Yes! Thank you so much!

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

A = {'GS.JYG.BHZ';'GS.TSS.BHZ'}
fid=fopen('fi.txt')
str=textscan(fid,'%s')
fclose(fid)
text=str{:}
for k=1:numel(A)
  freq(k)=sum(ismember(text,A{k}))
end

Answer 2

[Sarah Palfreyman]

See extractFileText in Text Analytics Toolbox

[Mustafa Abd]

how can me get this toolbox?