Frequency Analyser

Compose a hash containing the frequencies of characters in text.

Usage

gem install frequency_analyser

require 'frequency_analyser'

file = File.new('a_tale_of_two_cities.txt')
FrequencyAnalyser.analyse(file)
#=> {
  'a'=>47063, 'b'=>8139, 'c'=>13224, 'd'=>27484, 'e'=>72877, 'f'=>13152,
  'g'=>12121, 'h'=>38358, 'i'=>39784, 'j'=>622, 'k'=>4634, 'l'=>21533,
  'm'=>14922, 'n'=>41310, 'o'=>45115, 'p'=>9453, 'q'=>655, 'r'=>35956,
  's'=>36771, 't'=>52393, 'u'=>16216, 'v'=>5065, 'w'=>13835, 'x'=>666,
  'y'=>11849, 'z'=>213
}

You can analyse strings too:

FrequencyAnalyser.analyse('Hello, world!')
#=> { 'd'=>1, 'e'=>1, 'h'=>1, 'l'=>3, 'o'=>2, 'r'=>1, 'w'=>1 }

And collections of things:

FrequencyAnalyser.analyse('foo', File.new('bar'), StringIO.new('baz'), ['q', 'u', 'x'])
#=> { 'a'=>2, 'b'=>2, 'f'=>1, 'o'=>2, 'q'=>1, 'r'=>1, 'u'=>1, 'x'=>1, 'z'=>1 }

Counting other things

By defeault, Frequency Analyser counts alphabetic characters. You can change this by instantiating your own counter:

counter = FrequencyAnalyser::Counter.new(%w(1 3 5 !))
analyser = FrequencyAnalyser.new(counter)

analyser.analyse('!12321!')
#=> { '!'=>2, '1'=>2, '3'=>1 }