david said:
>   Thanks everyone for all for the help with text parsing.

which reminds me...

you remember that 
challenge we had a while back,
for a word-counter?

i couldn't port jay's fb3-based winner back to fb2.

so who was the winning fb2-compatible winner?
(i hope there was one.)  and where can i get the code?

heck, i'll take anyone's code, even if they weren't a winner,
it would be hard to be much slower than my routines...

-bowerbird