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Re: Count and display the frequency of occurance of each letter in

Ed Morton

2004-05-12, 7:19 pm

Cityhunters wrote:
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> Thanks guys^_^~finally i manage to solve this problem with all the
> hints ...
> my solution is :
>
> awk 'BEGIN{FS=""}{for(i=1;i <=NF;i++)count[$i]++}END{for(word in
> count)print count[word],word|"sort -nr" }' fileName

You should change count[$i] to count[tolower($i)] since you want to be
case-insensitive. You should also use "letter" instead of "word" as your
variable name. I don't know if makes any difference, but you could also
move the "| sort -nr" outside of the awk script.

Ed.

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