.NET Framework, Console Application

Version C

Statistics of text files

• Functionality:
  • Get the name of directory with files (the 1st parameter from command line)
  • Get the mask of files (e.g. *.txt) (the 2nd parameter)
  • Get the name of output file (the 3rd parameter)
  • For each file from the directory or from any of its subdirectory with name matching the mask:
    • Count total number of words
    • Count number of words beginning with latin letters (one counter per letter, case-insensitive)
    • For each file write to output file the name, total number of words and latin letters sorted descending by value of their counters
• Technical requirements:
  • Catch all exceptions
• Hints:
  • DirectoryInfo
  • StreamReader, StreamWriter
  • string.Split()

• Approximate points:
  • command line arguments: 1.0
  • reading files from directory: 3.0
  • checking all subdirectories: 1.0
  • counting number of words in a file: 1.5
  • counting words for letters: 1.5
  • sorting letters: 1.0
  • writing information to output file: 1.0