Exercise: Character Histogram

For every possible character on stdin, count the number of occurrences of that character. At program termination (end of file, EOF), print a histogram as in the example below.

  • Printable characters are output as-is

  • Nonprintable characters are output as their ASCII values.

Note

  • The decision whether a character is printable is made using the isprint() library function. See manual page.

  • You will need 256 counters (the ASCII alphabet has 256 characters defined), so you will it convenient to have an array of those, like

    int counters[256];

    Don’t forget to initialize the counters in this array; see Arrays.

$ ./histogram < /tmp/test-data.txt
0  ... |
1  ... |
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'a'... |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
'b'... |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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