lplencone / wordcounter

word counter written in c

wordcounter

word counter written in c

To compile the program, simply run make and run it as ./main

This program implements data structures to read a file and save the frequency each word appears in that.

Options

Use option -f to specify a file to read from; if not specified, program reads from standard input
Use option -h to print out help menu
Use option -i to read the words case insensitively
Use option -s to sort, pass in w to sort ASCIIbetically and f to sort by frequency
Use option -q to search for a word or words; when searching for multiple words, pass them separated by a comma
Use option -w to write, and pass in the path to the file where to save

If options -s and -q are used, the order of the words specified takes precedence, meaning it won't matter if you passed -s as flag

Note

For this program a word is any string of letters only. Numbers, underscore, etc. are not considered as part of words. If, then, there's the word 'e-mail' in a file, the program will consider 'e' to be a word as well as 'mail'.