RE: Printing frequency of word occurence in paragraph

2002-03-22 Thread David Gray
I think this is a prime example of TMTOWTDI (There's More Than One Way To Do It) - you now have two choices for how to indicate the end of input to your while() loop: 1) pressing ^Z instead of ^D 2) breaking out of your loop when you see certain input indicating end of input -dave ps - I think

Re: Printing frequency of word occurence in paragraph

2002-03-22 Thread Adam Turoff
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:37:05AM -0500, David Gray wrote: > while() will create an infinite loop, No, it won't. The "while ()" idiom will read one line at a time and automatically terminate the loop at the end of the file. > so you do need some sort of > sentinel value to break out of the lo

RE: Printing frequency of word occurence in paragraph

2002-03-22 Thread David Gray
> In the program below I don't know when to stop the loop. > (CTRL + d ) will just terminate the program, leaving the > data via STDIN unattended, this is my problem. > > Lets define what I want to do: > I want to print the frequency of every word at the beginning. > and every word at the end

Printing frequency of word occurence in paragraph

2002-03-21 Thread Bruce Ambraal
In the program below I don't know when to stop the loop. (CTRL + d ) will just terminate the program, leaving the data via STDIN unattended, this is my problem. Lets define what I want to do: I want to print the frequency of every word at the beginning. and every word at the end of a line. Th