IT-Sec/crypto_challenges/Frequency_Analyzer/challenge/freqanalyzer.adoc

= Frequency Analyzer

== Task

Implement a program that analyzes arbitrary text files by counting the occurrence of letters.
All special characters (e.g. `-`, `.`, `,`,`\s`,`\n`) and numbers should be ignored.
The program should treat all letters as case-insensitive and output:

* the letter,
* the number of it occurance and
* a percentage value in relation to all letters in the text

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For example, the following text should generate a similar output as shown below.

`This is a simple test`

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|S |4 | 0.23529 | 23.529 %
|T |3 | 0.17647 | 17.647 %
|I |3 | 0.17647 | 17.647 %
|E |2 | 0.11765 | 11.765 %
|H |1 | 0.05882 | 5.882 %
|A |1 | 0.05882 | 5.882 %
|M |1 | 0.05882 | 5.882 %
|P |1 | 0.05882 | 5.882 %
|L |1 | 0.05882 | 5.882 %
|===

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TIP: Design your program such that you can easily reuse the frequency-analysis component in other programs as well.

WARNING: You can use any programming language you want. We will need the frequency analyzer for some other challenges as well. So choose wisely!

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Example output of a fequency analyzer program using the input link:./../test.txt[test.txt].

[source, Shell]
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$ python solution.py ../test.txt 
E  562 0.11408
T  467 0.09480
I  428 0.08688
A  423 0.08587
O  396 0.08038
S  356 0.07226
U  344 0.06983
M  299 0.06069
R  292 0.05927
L  277 0.05623
D  246 0.04993
N  242 0.04912
C  137 0.02781
P  104 0.02111
G   77 0.01563
V   67 0.01360
B   52 0.01055
Q   38 0.00771
Y   28 0.00568
K   24 0.00487
F   22 0.00446
J   12 0.00243
H   11 0.00223
Z   10 0.00203
X    8 0.00162
W    4 0.00081
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