CharFreak

Character frequency counter

Description

This program counts characters and gives their respective frequencies in a text sample.

Features

• Accepting UTF-8 text sample of any length

• Effective exclusion of BOM

• Optional filter of spaces, all punctuation marks or all non-alphabetical characters

• Optional case sensitivity

• Optional sorting method

• Automatic counter resize

How to Build

Linux: Run compile.sh.

Windows: Install MSYS2 and GCC. Run compile.bat.

To Do List (Maybe)

• Explicit UTF-8 reading algorithm (so as to enhance portability)

• UTF-16 support

• Passing command-line arguments

• Manual page