Language in C++

Finding matching strings is a common problem in computing. For this assignment, we want to look at WORDS and PHRASES in our input. A WORD is a sequence of characters, separated by whitespace (that is, spaces, tabs, newlines). A PHRASE is a sequence of WORDS separated by a space between the words. The length of a PHRASE is the number of WORDS in the phrase.

When processing input, all letters should be converted to lower case.

This means that an input file that looks like this:

This isnt the pr3oper time, YOU know, DuDe, to fight about this!

And is treated as these words:

This

isn't

the

pr3oper

time,

you

know,

"dude"

to

fight

about

this!

When we run our program, we consider phrases of a certain length N -- that is, all sequences of N consecutive words. Using the example above, here is the list of all of the phrases in the input file for the case of N equal to 6:

this isnt the pr3oper time, you

isnt the pr3oper time, you know,

the pr3oper time, you know, dude

pr3oper time, you know, dude to

time, you know, dude to fight

you know, dude to fight about

know, dude to fight about this!

The assignment is to write a program that finds the most common expressions of length N across all input files. N will be the first command line argument, then a mode (all or top), followed by the names of all of the input files.

If the mode is all, print all phrases, whether the top frequency or not. If the mode is top, then only the ones that are max frequency. In either mode, results are printed in alphabetical order by the phrase text.

Your program must process the command line arguments. Then, for each input file, your program shall:

Read each file, according to the rules described above, resulting in a list of WORDS

Determine PHRASES of N words

Find and print the PHRASE that appears the most often by examining the map element(s) that has the

highest frequency (or all of them if in all mode)

After processing every file, your program should print all common phrases across all files. This means, for example, that if every file contains the phrase game over man you must recognize that and print out that phrase.

The format of your output for EACH file should be: PHRASE (# of times it appears)

Where FILENAME is the name of the file, and PHRASE is the phrase.

Note that its possible that there are multiple phrases that appear with this highest frequency. For example, with N == 2, the input:

This is mine. This is yours. These are his. These are hers.

Contains the phrase this is 2 times and these are 2 times. For that situation, the phrases would be printed out as follows:

this is 2 these are 2

Part 1

All of the error cases other than ALL PHRASES EQUALLY FREQUENT, including opening files, but NO file processing (i.e. just open and close the file to see if its there - no reading, no parsing, no counting, no printing)

Part 2

Processing all files and printing all-mode phrases with frequencies, but only for phrase length 1 (i.e. one word)

Part 3

Processing all files, including printing either the top or all mode, for phrase lengths that might be greater than 1, and determining if all phrases are the same length