C++ Homework - I'm Stuck

[spuddud77]

So I have this homework I'm working on for my computer science class. I've started. Am I even on the right track? And what do I need to do for the rest? I'm just looking for general help.

// You will create a program that determines the language of a given input file based on the words in that file.
// The structure of the input files will be one word per line (all lowercase letters).
// You should read these words in one LETTER at a time.
// Each input file will contain 100000 letters, and be in a different language.

// English: The top letter frequenices are e, i, and a respectively.
// Danish: The top letter frequencies are e, r, and n respectively.
// Italian: The letters j, x, and y do not exist in Italian

# include <iostream>
# include <fstream>
# include <string>
using namespace std;

void occur(char temp, int freq[], int occur[]);
void init(double arrayalphabet[], int n);

int main ()
{
// Your main function will open an input file and read the letters into an array.

int i = 0;

char letters[100000];

ifstream input;

input.open ("input_1.txt");

if (input.fail())
{
cout << "*ERROR OPENING INPUT FILE*" << endl;
}
else
{
while (!input.eof())
{
for (int i = 0; input.good(); i++)
{
cin >> letters[i];
}
}

}

// Call the functions above to first get the occurrence as a percent for each letter
// and then determine the language used.

// Also, include the following for testing:
// A while loop based on a boolean flag
// If the bool is set to true it will print out the occurrence of each letter (sorted) using 2 columns: letters and frequency
// If the bool is set to false, this printing will not happen
// You will be setting the bool (manually, for each run).

// Note: The input files may have 100000 letters, or they may have slightly less or slightly more.
// Therefore, you should use appropriate file-handling procedures as you used in Lab 7 (check for 2 things!).

return 0;
}

void occur(char temp, int freq[], int occur[])
{
// A void function that will take an array of size 100000, where each element is a letter from the input file
// and another array of size 26 (size of the alphabet)
// where each element is a number indicating the frequency of occurrence (how often the letter shows up in the first array).
// This function will be used to fill the second (occurrence) array.
// The occurrence should be a percentage.
// HINT: The following code will be helpful when trying to determine which array position in the second array to increment:

for (int i = 0; i < 100000; i++)
{
temp = freq[i];
occur[temp - 'a']++;
}

// temp_char = a[i];
// array a is the array of size 100000, with all letters
// b[temp_char - 'a']++;
// b is the array of size 26
}


void init(double arrayalphabet[], int n)
{
// A void function that will initialize an array of characters of size 26 so that element 0 = ‘a’
// and so on until element 25 = ‘z’.
// HINT: The following code will be helpful:

char alphabet[26];

for (int i = 0; i < 26; i++)
{
alphabet[i] = (char)i + 97;
}

//alpha[i] = (char)i+97;
// where alpha is the array is of type char, i is the element
// this uses type-casting to a char; 97 is ASCII-decimal code for ‘a’
}

void sort()
{
// A void function that sorts two arrays in parallel, both of size 26.
// One array will have the occurrence of letters, the other will be the char array of the alphabet.
// You want to sort in decreasing order so that the highest frequency is the first element (in one array)
// and its corresponding letter is also the first element (in the other array).
}

double percent()
{
// A value-returning function that returns the percentage of occurrence of a specific letter that is passed into the function.
// You will use this function to determine if the occurrence of j, x, y is zero.
// You may call it in other locations/situations if you wish.


}

void lang()
{
// A void function that takes in the occurrence array and the alphabet array and determines which language the file contains
// based on the above assumptions of the languages.
// It will print out to standard output the language that was determined;
// if it cannot determine the input to be one of the above languages
// then it should just print out “the language cannot be determined”.
}

[Wrath89]

1.
Use code tags when you post here.

2.
Use quotes for the bits that are the homework so that I can see which comments are yours and which are your teachers.

3.
Based on what I've seen this can be done with loops and counters.
Just count the number of e's, i's, a's, r's, n's, j's, x's, and y's.

If j, x or y are greater than 0 it's not italian.
Then you just have to compare the other two by seeing which number of letters is greater.

It's not rocket surgery.

[Smac89]

Lol rocket surgery ^