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I have to write a program that reads in a text file word by word and calculates how many times each word appears in the file.

* I have to use dynamic array of pointers to structures to accumulate the word count (my initial thought is to take the entire file, exclude all punctuation and whitespace, and take each word and put it into an array)

* I can't include punctuation as part of the word, if I have a word like "hello!" it should be put into the array as just "hello".

I'm stuck on the whole project as to where to start. I've played around with ispunct() and also with the idea of using an if statement to compare each character with its ascii value and if it falls into the digit value or punctuation value. I just don't know where to start. Any help would be appreciated.
May 1 '06 #1
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