I am attempting to use python to search a text file and count the number of times a user defined word appears. But when I run my code below, instead of getting a sum of the number of times that unique word appears in the file, I am getting a count for the number lines within that file contain that word. Example: the word 'bob' exists 56 times in the text file, appearing in 19 of the total 63 lines of text. When I run my code the console prints '19'. I am guessing I need to do something different with my split method? user_search_value = input("Enter the value or string to search for: ") count = 0 with open(file.txt, 'r') as f: for word in f.readlines(): words = word.lower().split() if user_search_value in words: count += 1 print(count) Continue reading...
