Vim Word count and insert into current text

Question

File BATMAN:

-2-3-4-6-8-10-11-13-14-16-17-18-19-20-21-25-29-30-33-35-36-37-43-44-45-47-48-49-50-51-52-54-55-56-57-58-59-60-61-62-63-64-65-66-68-69-70-71-73-74-75-76-81-82-83-85-86-87-88-89-90-91-92-94-95-96-97-98-99-101-102-103-104-108-110-111-112-113-114-115-116-117-128-129-130-131-132-133-134-135-136-137-147-148-149-150-151-154-155-156-157-158-159-160-161-162-163-164-165-166-167-168-171-173-174-175-177-180-184-185-186-187-188-189-190-191

File ROBIN:

-2-3-4-6-7-8-11-16-17-18-20-21-29-30-33-34-35-36-37-44-48-49-51-52-55-56-57-58-61-65-66-67-69-70-71-74-75-76-80-81-82-83-86-90-91-92-95-97-98-100-101-103-104-119-120-121-122-123-124-125-127-129-131-132-133-134-136-138-139-140-141-142-143-144-150-156-157-158-161-163-164-165-166-167-172-173-175-179-184-186-189-191

File LOCUTOR:

-4-147

I work in a translation company , and need to count the time that the actor speaks, and insert the count into the current file.

In my vimrc file I created this function:

fun! Abb()
    exe ":s/-//gn"
endfunc

How do I insert the number of word count manually. Thanks for your help

Answer 1

Assuming for each actor, you only have a single line with the many hyphens and your cursor is on a line with the many hyphens, you can do it like this:

call append('.', "Count: ".len(split(getline('.'),'-')))

Of course you can now wrap it into a function, find the next line with hyphens in it, if the cursor is not on it or add some error management. That is left as an excercise to the reader :)