ImportText file from a chatroom: Creating an output of how many letters the chatters posted per week

[kmin87]

I want to import a text file and based on the chat logs from that chatroom, i want to create a weekly summary of how many letters the chatter typed for the week.

How do i create a code to accomplish this? The text file is in this format

--------------- Monday, August 2, 2021 ---------------

[A] [7:00 PM] Aaaaaand its still down

[B 🤙] [7:34 PM] Photo

--------------- Tuesday, August 23, 2021 ---------------

End state below (for example):

A: 20

B: 0

From 1-7 Aug 2021

[Reeza]

I suspect you cannot actually ignore those emoticons by the way.

Can you please include a slightly larger sample that maybe has some actual content like the images or comma's, punctuation, line endings which usually cause issues. Your data as shown is trivial to import but any solution will not work on your actual data.

[ballardw]

"Letters" as in number of characters?

Or "Letters" as in number of messages? If number of messages what in that example actually identifies "the chatter"?

Where do you get 20 for A? Your example shows maybe 1 message and the second period is 21 days later, much more than a "week".

Any desired /expected result must be based on input examples to have a good chance of matching expectations.