Paragraph Counter
Count the paragraphs in pasted text, with each paragraph's own word and sentence counts.
What is Paragraph Counter?
Counting paragraphs is counting structure, and it is the measurement most often done wrongly by hand: wrapped lines in a text editor look like paragraph breaks, so a 40-line file can hold anywhere from one to forty paragraphs depending on where the actual breaks are. The convention that matches how prose is written — and how Markdown defines it — is that a paragraph ends at a blank line and a single newline is only a line break.
How it works
The text is split on runs of blank lines, matching paragraph boundaries in prose and Markdown, with each block trimmed and empty blocks ignored rather than counted. Every surviving block is tokenised and sentence-split with the category's shared statistics module, giving its word and sentence counts. The lengths are then charted by bucket, because the distribution is what a writer acts on — one 400-word paragraph among nine short ones is the usual finding.
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