doclength

Length of documents in document array

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Syntax

N = doclength(documents)

Description

N = doclength(documents) returns the number of tokens in each document in documents.

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Examples

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Open Live Script

Find the number of words in an array of tokenized documents. Erase the punctuation characters so they do not get counted as words.

str = [ ...
    "An example of a short sentence." 
    "A second short sentence."];
documents = tokenizedDocument(str)
documents = 
  2×1 tokenizedDocument:

    7 tokens: An example of a short sentence .
    5 tokens: A second short sentence .


documents = erasePunctuation(documents)
documents = 
  2×1 tokenizedDocument:

    6 tokens: An example of a short sentence
    4 tokens: A second short sentence


N = doclength(documents)
N = 2×1

     6
     4

Input Arguments

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Input documents, specified as a tokenizedDocument array.

Output Arguments

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Document lengths, returned as a vector of nonnegative integers. The size of N is the same as the size of documents.

Version History

Introduced in R2017b

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