/readTextFile

Primary LanguageJava

#Pseudocode:

  1. read in file to a string
  2. parse string into array, removing all non-alphanumeric characters. Except hyphens and apostrophe.
  3. create empty hash table key/value data structure
  4. iterate through array of words checking if the current word exists in as a key in the hash table
  • if it does exist increment value by one
  • if it does NOT exist create the word as a key with a initial value of one
  1. iterate through set of keys from hash table while length is greater than one
  • assign current key as most occurred
  • create another loop to iterate through same keys
    • if most occurred is less than nested loop current value then reassign it's value to that key
  • when inside loop has finished we push most occurred to an array
  • removed most occurred from key set
  1. return array