Wordcount

Purpose of the program

Wordcount reads in text, either from a text file or from standard input, counts how many times each word appears in this, and then prints the results either to standard output or to a text file. It will also output the number of words in the file.

Compiler Information

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 14.12.25835.0
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 19.12.25835 for x86
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 14.12.25835.0

How to use the application

Open command prompt, and change the directory to the location of the .c and makefile
Use nmake wordcount to build the application
To execute, use wordcount -i <input file> -o <output file>
Both the input and output files must be .txt documents, located in the same folder as the .c file and makefile.
If -i or -o are missing, the program will expect the text to come from the console, or will print to the console respectively
If you're inputting text using the console, you will need to use ctrl+z on a new line and then press Enter after your text input to indicate that your input has ended
Using -c will cause the program to ignore capitalised letters, so 'language' and 'Language' will both be treated as the same word.

Makefile Commands

At present, these are all the commands available through the makefile, they're all preceded by nmake

clean - removes the .exe and .obj files
wordcount - compiles the program, generating .exe and .obj files
singleWords - runs the program using single_words_test.txt as the input, outputs to console
singleWordsCase - runs the program using single_words_test.txt as the input, ignores letter case, outputs to console
sentences - runs the program using sentences_test.txt as the input, outputs to console
sentencesCase - runs the program using sentences_test.txt as the input, ignores letter case, outputs to console

Known Limitations

At present, the program cannot analyse more than 2000 words
A line may not be longer than 1024 characters
the total number of characters in the input (including spaces) cannot be larger than 20000

SecComet / CW1-WordCount