K&R2, section1.6, exercise 1-14

[arnuld]

i was not even able to understand how should i proceed tow rite
solution for this exercise:

"Write a program to print a histogram of the frequencies of different
characters in its input."

then i tried this: http://clc-wiki.net/wiki/K&R2_solutions:Chapter_1:Exercise_14

i did not understand the following in Histogram solution:

1.) on X-axis, all i see are "0000001111112222333" what do they
represent ?
2.) Y-axis, starts from 0 and goes to 476, whereas there are only 256
characters in ASCII.

i guess, Y-axis represents how many times a character occurs but how
do i know how many times 'a' occured and how many times "?" occured or
how many times a particular "character" occured ?

 

[mark_bluemel]

i was not even able to understand how should i proceed tow rite
solution for this exercise:

"Write a program to print a histogram of the frequencies of different
characters in its input."

As ever, it's helpful to break a task into sub-tasks.

Start off by considering how you would write a program which simply
counted the frequencies of different characters and did a simple
report like :-

character 0 occurred 0 times
character 1 occurred 3 times
....
character 255 occurred 0 times

Then consider how to do the histogram.

then i tried this:http://clc-wiki.net/wiki/K&R2_solutions:Chapter_1:Exercise_14

i did not understand the following in Histogram solution:

1.) on X-axis, all i see are "0000001111112222333" what do they
represent ?

Character in decimal numeric form printed vertically...

Non-occurring characters are not plotted

2.) Y-axis, starts from 0 and goes to 476, whereas there are only 256
characters in ASCII.

i guess, Y-axis represents how many times a character occurs but how
do i know how many times 'a' occured and how many times "?" occured or
how many times a particular "character" occured ?

That's what we are maintaining in the freqarr array, using the same
sort of approach which was used in the word length exercise.

 

[Peter Shaggy Haywood]

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i was not even able to understand how should i proceed tow rite
solution for this exercise:

"Write a program to print a histogram of the frequencies of different
characters in its input."

Use an array of int, each element representing a character.
Initialise all elements to 0. When you read a character, increment the
coresponding element of the array.

then i tried this: http://clc-wiki.net/wiki/K&R2_solutions:Chapter_1:Exercise_14

i did not understand the following in Histogram solution:

1.) on X-axis, all i see are "0000001111112222333" what do they
represent ?

I don't know. At a guess, possibly the different digits represent
tens. Thus 000000111111222222333 might represent 35, but only an
approximation.

2.) Y-axis, starts from 0 and goes to 476, whereas there are only 256
characters in ASCII.

No, ASCII is a 7 bit characer set. There are 128 values in it, the
first 32 of which are control characters (including NUL, the null
character).

i guess, Y-axis represents how many times a character occurs but how
do i know how many times 'a' occured and how many times "?" occured or
how many times a particular "character" occured ?

I don't know.

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