simple word counter

WordCounters.jl

module WordCounters

export createWordList, wordCount

function createWordList(dictfile, nsamples)
    dictwords = readdlm(dictfile,'\n',AbstractString)
    ln = length(dictwords)
    # vector of random indices
    rindices = rand(1:ln, nsamples)
    # vector of random words
    dictwords[rindices]
end

function wordCount(words)
    counts = Dict{AbstractString,Int64}()
    for i = 1:length(words)
        w = words[i]
        counts[w] = get(counts, w, 0) + 1
    end
    counts
end

end

function main(filename, n)
    wl = createWordList(filename, n)
    wc = wordCount(wl)
end

This was written in response to article and code from http://preshing.com/files/wordcount.zip