hidefender/h-generator

A generator of H frequency values for a research project

H-Generator

A script to generate H for a research class

Usage

ruby gen_h.rb -g alphabet.txt, -f freqs.txt

Options and Inputs

Alphabet File

Flag: -g, --alphabet

Expected format is a list of words, one per line, all unique, with sufficient range so as to be allow users to type all possible words (thereby requiring all english characters and the space character)

Example:

a
b
c
...
the
ation
st

Frequency File

Flag: -f, --frequencies

Expected format is a list of words, space separated from their frequency counts, one per line, in descending order.

Example:

THE  12345677
HELLO  134567
EXAMPLE 123342

Recommended file: http://norvig.com/google-books-common-words.txt

Output File

Flag: -o, --output

The file to write the result to

Words to Parse (Optional)

Flag: -n, --words-to-parse

The number of words to parse from the frequency file. Defaults to 10000