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Counting charecter occurences in a file *Simple*

How can I count the occurences of each character in a text file and then organize them by most occuring?


im a little new at this and i just joined so i kinda wanted an example
May 26 '12 #1
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johny10151981
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Simple trick is take an int array with the size 256
say the name is count[256];

read character by character say name is ch

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  1. while(ch=readcharsomehow(filename))
  2. {
  3.  count[ch]++;
  4. }
  5.  
do sort by yourslef
May 26 '12 #2

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