Calculating frequency of each word in a text file
Critical Thinking and Coding Analysis Assessment
Problem Statement:
Write a script to calculate the frequency of each word in a text file words.txt.
For simplicity’s sake, you may assume:
words.txt contains only lowercase characters and space ' ' characters.
Each word must consist of lowercase characters only.
Words are separated by one or more whitespace characters.
Example:
Assume that words.txt has the following content:
the day is sunny the the
the sunny is is
Your script should output the following, sorted by descending frequency:
the 4
is 3
sunny 2
day 1
Note:
Don't worry about handling ties, it is guaranteed that each word's frequency count is unique.
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