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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Counting a particular word per line Post 302410976 by bigubosu on Wednesday 7th of April 2010 09:42:58 AM
Old 04-07-2010
Counting a particular word per line

1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
Code:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
It was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
It was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,
It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
/*we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other  way in short, the poeriod was so far like the present period,*/
that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received,
for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Find the line that contains the word 'the' 3 times.

2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:
can only use tee, tr, grep, head, tail, sort, uniq, cut, paste, join and cat


3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts):
I've got a general idea of how to do it but i don't know how to put it all into a command. The marked /**/ line above is the line i should be printing out as it contains 3 "the".

This is not the first question in my lab but its the 6th. The previous question don't ask to analyse lines, rather count words with 10 letters, turn upper case to lower case. list unique words only once.

So my main problem is knowing how to check each line for the word 'the' occurring 3 times.


4. Complete Name of School (University), City (State), Country, Name of Professor, and Course Number (Link to Course):
FIT3042 Monash, Australia, Victoria, Computer Science, John Hurst.

Note: Without school/professor/course information, you will be banned if you post here! You must complete the entire template (not just parts of it).

Last edited by bakunin; 04-07-2010 at 12:50 PM.. Reason: provided some code-tags for free
 

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uniq(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   uniq(1)

Name
       uniq - report repeated lines in a file

Syntax
       uniq [-udc[+n][-n]] [input[output]]

Description
       The  command  reads  the  input	file comparing adjacent lines.	In the normal case, the second and succeeding copies of repeated lines are
       removed; the remainder is written on the output file.  Note that repeated lines must be adjacent in order to be found.  For further  infor-
       mation, see

Options
       The n arguments specify skipping an initial portion of each line in the comparison:

       -n Skips specified number of fields.  A field is defined as a string of non-space, non-tab characters separated by tabs and spaces from its
	  neighbors.

       +n Skips specified number of characters in addition to fields.  Fields are skipped before characters.

       -c Displays number of repetitions, if any, for each line.

       -d Displays only lines that were repeated.

       -u Displays only unique (nonrepeated) lines.

       If the -u flag is used, just the lines that are not repeated in the original file are output.  The -d option specifies  that  one  copy	of
       just the repeated lines is to be written.  The normal mode output is the union of the -u and -d mode outputs.

       The  -c option supersedes -u and -d and generates an output report in default style but with each line preceded by a count of the number of
       times it occurred.

See Also
       comm(1), sort(1)

																	   uniq(1)
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