CountWords

Background:

1. This lab assignment will count the occurrences of words in a text file. Here are some special cases that you must take into account:

   Special Cases Explanation hyphenated words (i.e., sixty-three) Count as one word hyphenated words with blank spaces on each side of hyphen (i.e., joyous - sparkling) Count as two words apostrophed words (i.e., 'tis, or can't) Count as one word upper and lower case (i.e., The and the) Both count as occurrences of the word 'the'. Convert any capital letters to lower case before counting such words.

   
   

2. You are encouraged to use a combination of all the programming tools you have learned so far, such as:

   Data Structures	Algorithms
   Array classes String class ArrayList class	sorting searches text file processing

Assignment:

1. Your instructor will provide you with a data file (such as test.txt, Lincoln.txt, or dream.txt) to analyze. Parse the file and print out the following statistical results:

   - Total number of unique words used in the file.
   - Total number of words in a file.
   - The top 30 words which occur the most frequently, sorted in descending order by count.

   For example:

 1    103   the
 2     97    of
 3     59    to
 4     43    and
 5     36    a

 6     32    be
 7     32    we
 8     26    will
 9     24    that
10     21    is

... rest of top 30 words ...

Number of words used = 525
Total # of words = 1577