---
name: "Text::ngrams"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libtext-ngrams-perl"
version: "2.006-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Text::ngrams"
---

# Text::ngrams(3pm)

Compute the ngram frequencies and produce tables to the stdout.

## NAME

ngrams - Compute the ngram frequencies and produce tables to the stdout.

## SYNOPIS

```
  ngram [--version] [--help] [--n=3] [--normalize] [--type=TYPE]
        [--orderby=ORD] [--onlyfirst=N] [input files]
```

## DESCRIPTION

This script produces n-grams tables of the input files to the standard output.

Options:

- \--normalize

  Prints normalized n-gram frequencies; i.e., the n-gram counts divided by the total number of n-grams of the same size.

- \--onlyfirst=NUMBER

  Prints only the first NUMBER n-grams for each n.  See Text::Ngrams module.

- \--limit=NUMBER

  Limit the total number of distinct n-grams (for efficiency reasons, the counts may not be correct at the end).

- \--version

  Prints version.

- \--help

  Prints help.

- \--n=NUMBER

  N-gram size, produces 3-grams by default.

- \--orderby=frequency\|ngram

  The n-gram order.  See Text::Ngrams module.

- \--type=character\|byte\|word\|utf8

  Type of n-grams produces. See Text::Ngrams module.

## PREREQUISITES

Text::Ngrams, Getopt::Long

## SCRIPT CATEGORIES

Text::Statistics

## README

N-gram analysis for various kinds of n-grams (character, words, bytes, utf8, and user-defined). Based on Text::Ngrams module.

## SEE ALSO

Text::Ngrams module.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2003-2017 Vlado Keselj *http://web.cs.dal.ca/~vlado*

This module is provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The latest version can be found at *http://web.cs.dal.ca/~vlado/srcperl/*.