Re: C++ solution for K & R(2nd Ed) Ex.6-4 - better solution needed

From:
Barry <dhb2000@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:20:07 +0800
Message-ID:
<fdlfvl$taa$1@aioe.org>
subramanian100in@yahoo.com, India wrote:

As a beginner in C++, I have attempted the C++ solution for the
following:

Consider the Ex. 6-4 in K & R(ANSI C) 2nd Edition in Page 143 :

Write a program that prints the distinct words in its input sorted
into descending order of frequency of occurrence. Precede each word by
its count.

(Here I assume that we should NOT sort the words first. Instead sort
in decreasing order as per frequency.)

Following is my C++ solution which works fine. Kindly suggest better
way of doing it.

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <utility>
#include <algorithm>

using namespace std;

typedef pair<int, string> is;

bool cmp_fn(is arg1, is arg2)
{
        return (arg2.first < arg1.first) ? true : false;
}

void print(const is & arg)
{
        cout << arg.second << ": " << arg.first << endl;
}

int main()
{
        vector<string> unique_words;
        vector<is> v;

        string word;

        while (cin >> word)
        {
                if (find(unique_words.begin(), unique_words.end(),
word) == unique_words.end())
                {
                        unique_words.push_back(word);
                        v.push_back(make_pair(1, word));
                }
                else
                {
                        for (vector<is>::iterator i = v.begin(); i !=
v.end(); ++i)
                                if (i->second == word)
                                {
                                        ++i->first;
                                        break;
                                }

                }
        }

        sort(v.begin(), v.end(), cmp_fn);

        for_each(v.begin(), v.end(), print);

        return 0;
}

Kindly help.


I see that the problem needs mutli_index, where we need string as key,
but sorted by another key of int.

I think Boost has something for you.

Anyway, if you don't want to use big tool to deal with small thing,
I suggest you use std::vector<pair<int, string> > as your associative
container, you wrap this as your member, when you add a key word, find a
right place to insert.

In this case, insertion, searching, is of O(N), not considering the cost
of caused by insertion.

--
Thanks
Barry

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