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Plese help. Is there any software by which we can do that?

Umesh wrote:
> Plese help. Is there any software by which we can do that?
>
Please restate your real question in the body of your posting. Don't
rely on the text in the Subject to always be obvious.

The question you asked is:

"How to calculate the percentage of each character in a text file?"

Sounds like homework to me. What have you done so far? You are
essentially asking for a distribution of letters (and, perhaps,
punctuation) in a file, possibly in order to print a histogram and/or
report on how often such characters appears in the file.

Start by counting how many of each character you get. Compare that with
the total number of characters you have.

Hint: choose a language and post to that group only. There is some
overlap between C and C++, but they are really different beasts.

I want to find out % of a, b, c, d ..,z in a text file. Suppose that
the text file is a story. Is there any software for this purpose?

In article < .com>,
Umesh <> wrote:
>I want to find out % of a, b, c, d ..,z in a text file. Suppose that
>the text file is a story. Is there any software for this purpose?

Yes, there is software for that purpose, but No, I couldn't name
any immediately.

This sort of program is trivial to write in C (or C++).

A question about your specifications: should upper and lower
case characters be treated as equivilent? Should they be
counted individually? Your specification only mentioned the
lower case letters, so should upper case letters be silently
ignored?

Should the program make some kind of attempt to determine whether
a letter is part of a word, and ignore the ones that are not?
For example, if there is a phrase that "She lives at 36-E 9th St.",
then should the 'E' be counted (36-E is not a word), should
the 't' and 'h' of '9th' be counted, should the 'S' and 't'
of 'St.' be counted?
--
"No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by
demanding empirical evidence." -- Ann Landers

I need at least a solution first. Then I'll look for specifications.

Walter Roberson wrote:
> In article < .com>,
> Umesh <> wrote:
> >I want to find out % of a, b, c, d ..,z in a text file. Suppose that
> >the text file is a story. Is there any software for this purpose?
>
> Yes, there is software for that purpose, but No, I couldn't name
> any immediately.
>
> This sort of program is trivial to write in C (or C++).
>
> A question about your specifications: should upper and lower
> case characters be treated as equivilent? Should they be
> counted individually? Your specification only mentioned the
> lower case letters, so should upper case letters be silently
> ignored?
>
> Should the program make some kind of attempt to determine whether
> a letter is part of a word, and ignore the ones that are not?
> For example, if there is a phrase that "She lives at 36-E 9th St.",
> then should the 'E' be counted (36-E is not a word), should
> the 't' and 'h' of '9th' be counted, should the 'S' and 't'
> of 'St.' be counted?
> --
> "No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by
> demanding empirical evidence." -- Ann Landers

"Umesh" <> writes:

Please don't top post...

> I need at least a solution first. Then I'll look for specifications.

*Snort*

If you don't know the specifications of your solution, how will you
know if you have one?

I think you're in the wrong group. If you're looking for an existing
tool, you need to find a newsgroup for your platform.

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Umesh wrote:
> I need at least a solution first. Then I'll look for specifications.
>

That would be quite funny if it weren't written by someone who probably
intends to become a programmer. Please do humanity a favor and change
majors.

For simplicity assume that all 26 inputs are in lower case. Now pl
write a program to input a text file and count number of a, b, c, ..,z
in the text file. Put is down in a output file. I'll do the rest.

Dave Steffen wrote:
> "Umesh" <> writes:
>
> Please don't top post...
>
> > I need at least a solution first. Then I'll look for specifications.
>
> *Snort*
>
> If you don't know the specifications of your solution, how will you
> know if you have one?
>
> I think you're in the wrong group. If you're looking for an existing
> tool, you need to find a newsgroup for your platform.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dave Steffen, Ph.D. Disobey this command!
> Software Engineer IV - Douglas Hofstadter
> Numerica Corporation
> dg@steffen a@t numerica d@ot us (remove @'s to email me)

"Umesh" <> wrote in
news: oups.com:

> For simplicity assume that all 26 inputs are in lower case. Now pl
> write a program to input a text file and count number of a, b, c, ..,z
> in the text file. Put is down in a output file. I'll do the rest.

How much are you paying?

See the C++ FAQ, section 5.3:

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lit...t.html#faq-5.3


Short answer:

Do it yourself. If you get stuck, ask a specific question.

Umesh wrote:
> For simplicity assume that all 26 inputs are in lower case. Now pl
> write a program to input a text file and count number of a, b, c, ..,z
> in the text file. Put is down in a output file. I'll do the rest.
>
Didn't you see the words "Please don't top post"?

What rest? Come on, give it a go a post your code. When you do, choose
either C or C++ and post to the appropriate group.

> Dave Steffen wrote:
>
>>"Umesh" <> writes:
>>
>>Please don't top post...
>>
>>
>>>I need at least a solution first. Then I'll look for specifications.
>>
>>*Snort*
>>
>>If you don't know the specifications of your solution, how will you
>>know if you have one?
>>
>>I think you're in the wrong group. If you're looking for an existing
>>tool, you need to find a newsgroup for your platform.
>>

--
Ian Collins.