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Count Letters in File

Posted by Matt Gerrans on December 08, 2001 at 6:37 PM

> Real amateur here. Need to make a short program that read a file called text.dat the displays the number of output of each character as:
> Letter Frequency
> A 23 etc.
> Know its something to do with arrays and is suppose to be quite short. Its not an applet.
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks.

x = {}
for l in open('text.dat').readlines():
   for c in l:
      if c in x.keys(): 
         x[c] = x[c] + 1
      else:
         x[c] = 1
for c in x.keys():
   print '%c (%02x): %d' % (c,ord(c),x[c])

- mfg

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