Text Concordancing Service

Non-ASCII characters in the form or in the command file. - The default alphabet is: "'" (apostrophe), lower- and uppercase "A a .. Z z" plus the numerics "0 .. 9". The default punctuation is ", ; : . ! ?". Parentheses "( )" are declared as padding characters, i.e. they are left in the contexts, but are stripped from the keywords. "-" (minus) is the default diacritic, forming words only joined to alphabet letters.
For a better performance of the program, the encoding of the data typed in the string fields of the form or in the command file should be always the same as the encoding of the source text to process ( Macintosh, Windows, UTF-8, UTF-16 ), the default being UTF-8.
Whichever way you choose to operate, if you are sending to OCPR any non-ASCII characters, i.e. characters with diacritics (not "A-Z a-z 0-9"), then remember to set your browser's encoding to the same encoding of the text.

Escaping significant characters. - Some characters ( space  "  '  =  .  :  < ) have a special meaning in the command language of the program. If you are going to use as literal any of them in the form or in the command file, they should be escaped with the escape character, e.g. writing :' or :: or :". The default escape character is the colon ":", but you can set a better one of your choise in the input field below.
The current escape character is

Tabs in the command file. - If your command file contains tabs, e.g. to indent the statements, the program will substitute them with 4 blanks, to properly position error markers when sintax errors are detected. If the setting of your text processor is not the same, then for a better visualization you can change this value here, in the input field below. A tab have no meaning in the text file itself to be processed, because it is read as a single blank.
The current tab value is blanks.

Current limits. - Maximum text file size is 800kb. If needed, you may segment your data and send upto 3 text files, naming them <filename>1, <filename>2, <filename>3. They will be internally joined in a single stream to process. Beware not to mix file types and encodings in the stream.
RTF files will lost all their tags and only the intrinsic L category (i.e. line numbers) will be available to select or to print. XML-TEI files too will lost all their tags and only the intrinsic L category (i.e. line numbers) and the P category (i.e. page numbers) will be available to select or to print.
Furthermore your text file/s should contain max 500 different characters and max 290 different letters. Depending on the size of the text file and on the tasks you have requested, some processings will take a very long time, upto 30 minutes, mainly for the sorting stage, when accessing the hard disk. Be patient and you will be rewarded!