from sys import argv, exit
import csv
import re
if len(argv) < 3:
    print("missing command line argument")
with open(argv[1],"r") as file, open(argv[2],"r") as csvfile:
    count = 0
    contents = file.read()
    csvcontents = csv.reader(csvfile)
	header = next(csvcontents)
    print("header prints")
    print(header)
    print("attempting to print rows of csvfile")
    for row in csvcontents:
        print(row)
    print("now header prints:")
    print(header)
    for item in header[1:]:
        #print("item prints:")
        #print(item)
        beg = 0 # beginning index
        end = len(item) # item length
        seqrun = 0
        longest = 0
        #while contents[beg:beg+len(item)]:
        while beg + end <= len(contents):
            #if contents[beg:beg+len(item)] == item: # trying to solve the issue of end being incremented incorrectly here
            seqrun = 0
            while contents[beg + len(item): beg + len(item)] == item:
                seqrun += 1
                beg += len(item)
                #end += len(item) i don't need to increment end as well?
            if seqrun > longest:
                longest = seqrun
            #beg += 1 why does beginning not need to be updated?
            end += 1
        print(item + " repeats " + str(seqrun) + "times")
        print(item + " the longest run is " + str(longest) + "items")