C++ Problem

This project is for testing the use of binary search trees and files. In this assignment, you will be using a binary search tree to gather information about the frequency of letter distributions in a file.

Background: In cryptography, one way to attempt to break a code is to calculate the frequency of letter and subsequence occurrence. For example, the amount of time each single letter occurs, amount of combinations of letter pairs, the amount of 3-letter combinations and so on.

For example, in the string aadabcdaa, this has

a: 5

b: 1

c: 1

d: 2

aa: 2

ad: 1

da: 2

ab: 1

bc: 1

cd: 1

aad : 1

and so forth.

Your program will open a file and then count the occurrences of subsequences up to consecutive letters k, so if the user enters k=4, you would store the number of all consecutive letter sequences up to 4.

Description: Use a binary search tree that stores at each node both a string and a count of how many of that node it has found. Then, go through the file given (text file) and starting with the first letter, push it onto the tree with a count of 1. Then get the next character in the file, push it onto the tree, and so forth. If you ever try to add a node that has already been added (for example, pushing an a onto the tree that already has an a, increment the count at that node.

Once that is done, go through the file again and get all consecutive 2-letter occurrences and push them onto the tree. Again, if there is a match, increment the count.

Repeat this entire process until you reach a k long sequence.

Note: You can of course combine all these steps also if you want. Also, feel free to use the binary search tree code from the textbook, with the slight modification as described.

Output: Once your program is done, do an inorder traversal of the tree, outputting the data in the following format:

a: 27

aa: 6

aaa: 3

etc.

indicating that the letter a was found 27 times, the sequence aa was found 6 times and so on.

Additional complication: Since it is common in code to either use misleading spaces or leave spaces out altogether, your code should ignore any spaces in the message. Simply deal with alphabetical characters and their sequence. So for example, the sequence a a would still count as consecutive aa. The file that you take in will contain only alphabetical characters and spaces. It might or might not have endline characters, but you should ignore them in either case as you do for spaces.

Also ensure that any file handling errors are dealt with, such as the file not existing or a read not working.

I suggest you start this assignment by having it store the statistics for single-letter occurrences and then try it for multi-letter sequences. That way you know the tree operations and traversals are working fine before you mess around with parsing the string.

Submit your '.ccp' file and an screenshot of output.