[Tutor] wierd replace problem

[bob gailer]

  On 9/13/2010 1:50 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote:

[snip]
> hello Alan,
>
> Your right. Then it prints like this "'tis
> Which is not right. It must be tis.
> So the replace does not what it supposed to do.
>
Sorry but I am now more confused. After discovering no \ in the text 
file now you seem to have have a new specification, which is to get rid 
of the '.

I suggest you give a clear, complete and correct problem statement. 
Right now we are shooting in the dark at a moving target.

Something like.

Given the file alice_in_wonderland.txt, copied from url so-and-so

Remove these characters ...

Split into words (not letters?) where word is defined as

Count the frequency of each word.

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Bob Gailer
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