From: Joseph McDonald <joe@...>
Date: 2002-09-10T07:41:47+09:00
Subject: Re: How best to histogram words?


aq> I want to count the occurrence of specific words. In the past I've
aq> used a hash as shown below. Is there a better way? I don't know which
aq> words will occur, otherwise I'd just preinitialize the hash to all
aq> zeros.

try:

wordcnt = Hash.new(0)
while l = gets.split.each do |w|
  wordcnt[w] += 1
end

puts wordcnt


regards,
-joe