Word_Counter

This is the first homework of the course "Python in the Enterprise", as requested is implemented a personal version of famous Linux "wc" command, that can be used to provide a total of the number of row, total of the number of words and total of the number of character which are in a input text.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• In order to run this project is important to use python version 3 or upper.
  Install it with:

   $ sudo apt-get install python3
  

  now check your version:

  $ python --version
  

Basic usage

• This project is developed to emulate Linux "wc" (Linux Word Counter)
  The syntax of word counter is the follow:

   $ python3 wc.py <Your_File> -option
  

• It is possible to count total number of row in file, adding option "-r"

  $ python3 wc.py <Your_File> -r 
  

• It is possible to count total number of word in file, adding option "-w"

  $ python3 wc.py <Your_File> -w 
  

• It is possible to count total number of character in file, adding option "-c"

  $ python3 wc.py <Your_File> -c 
  

• It is possible to compute at same time all statistic, without options

  $ python3 wc.py <Your_File> 
  

• It is possible to compute the input text that user insert by keyboard, if no text file is specified

  $ python3 wc.py
  

Results

Personal word counter reveals good performance also with quite large file.

• output of computation with file almost 2GB

  (18997956, 246973425, 1196871213)
  
  real	0m18.464s
  user	0m17.980s
  sys	0m0.456s
  
  

Authors

• Mario Egidio Carricato - Erasmus student AGH - other projects