What tools do you use for VMS analysis?

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I use the c++ programming language and have written a console program to do analysis on the manuscript. The program reads transliteration files in IVTFF format and stores information inside B-tree data structures. Data stored include words, word prefixes, words suffixes, word positions within lines, word pairs, characters, character pairs, character positions within words. I have my own c++ classes for storing data in B-tree structures. I create a set of such data structures for each folio, quire, language, hand and illustration type. Also for last and first words of a line, first line words in a paragraph, label single words, label multi-word sentences. My program then searches this data to get statistics of various word frequencies, word pair and character pair affinities.

The program outputs RTF files of tables of statistics that can also show manuscript words and sentences in a V font. Also CSV files to show matrices of affinities.

The only SQL database I use is SQLite which I run in memory mode. I am able to interface to SQLite directly from within my C++ program. I use SQLite to create a representation of the whole manuscript, as a PNG image file, which I occasionally do to locate where a particular word falls within the manuscript.

Whenever I feel the need to persue an additional line of investigation I can quickly make the coding changes and recompile my program.