diff --git a/src/util.jl b/src/util.jl
index 369d48a..550f9f9 100644
--- a/src/util.jl
+++ b/src/util.jl
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module util
 export timedifference, showstracktrace, findHighestIndexKey, uuid4snakecase, replaceDictKeys,
         findMatchingDictKey, textToDict, randstring, randstrings, timeout,
         dataframeToCSV, dfToVectorDict, disintegrate_vectorDict, getDataFrameValue, dfRowtoString, 
-        dfToString, dataframe_to_json_list, dict_to_string, extract_triple_backtick_text
+        dfToString, dataframe_to_json_list, dict_to_string, extract_triple_backtick_text, countGivenWords
 
 using JSON3, DataStructures, Distributions, Random, Dates, UUIDs, MQTTClient, DataFrames
 
@@ -733,13 +733,13 @@ Extracts text enclosed within triple backticks (```) from the given string.
 """
 function extract_triple_backtick_text(input::String)::Vector{String}
   # Regular expression to match text wrapped by triple backticks
-  regex = r"(```)(.*?)(```)"
+  regex = r"```([\s\S]*?)```"
   
   # Find all matches in the input string
   matches = collect(eachmatch(regex, input))
   
   # Extract the matched text (excluding the backticks)
-  extracted_text = [m.captures[2] for m in matches]
+  extracted_text = [m.captures[1] for m in matches]
   
   return extracted_text
 end
@@ -787,6 +787,20 @@ function detect_keyword(keyword::String, text::String)::Union{Nothing, String}
 end
 
 
+""" count a given word in a text """
+function countGivenWords(text::String, words::Vector{String})::Vector{Int}
+  count = []
+
+  # loop through each word in words
+  for word in words
+    # initialize a counter for the current word
+    splittext = split(text, word)
+    splittext_length = length(splittext)
+    thisWordCount = splittext_length - 1
+    push!(count, thisWordCount)
+  end
+  return count
+end