Project 2 ­ Word Count
Due Friday November 21, 2014
Overview
You will create a program that prints out statistics for a given file, similar to the Unix program wc.
Requirements
Your program must:
● Ask the user for the name of a file to process
● Print out the number of characters (including whitespace), words and lines in the file
● Print the average and median word length
● Print the 10 longest words, along with the length of each word.
For the purposes of this assignment, a word is any sequence of non­whitespace characters, so "hello",
"world!","--xkz,"and "&&^.2"all count, but "DanRoberts"does not.
For the longest words, no words should appear more than once. If there are not enough words in the file,
your program should print what words it can in order and then stop. If several words have the same length,
the order in which they are printed does not matter.
Make sure to follow the style guide and write plenty of comments!
Extra Credit
To earn additional points (2 each) your program may:
● Print the 10 most frequent words, along with the number of times they appear (same rules as longest
words above)
● Be impossible to crash
Testing
We have provided two files, veggies.txt and hamlet.txt, along with expected output for each. Your program
should match these exactly, except for the extra credit. Make sure to write your own tests as well!Grading Rubric
Functionality Point value
Read from the requested file 2
Character, word and line counts 6
Average word length 2
Median word length 2
10 longest words 4
Peer review 2
Style 2
Total 20
Sample Output Blue text is user input, black text is program output.
veggies.txt hamlet.txt
Filetoprocess:veggies.txt
Characters:91
Words:12
Lines:7
Averagewordlength:6.666666666666667
Medianwordlength:6.0
Longestwords:
15-brussels-sprout
8-cucumber
7-carrots
6-potato
5-onion
4-leek
Mostfrequentwords:
4-potato
3-onion
2-carrots
1-leek
1-brussels-sprout
1-cucumber
Filetoprocess:hamlet.txt
Characters:180716
Words:31656
Lines:6771
Averagewordlength:4.432998483699772
Medianwordlength:4.0
Longestwords:
37-tragical-comical-historical-pastoral,
22-character:--'Naked!'--
20-historical-pastoral,
20-good-night.--Indeed,
20-columbines:--there's
20-difference.--There's
20-tragical-historical,
18-Horatio:--Welcome,
18-madness,--thoughts
18-conceive:--friend,
Mostfrequentwords:
989-the
696-and
625-of
604-to
509-I
448-a
444-my
384-in
363-you
358-Ham.