I wanted to get the average of each unique character in a string. I have an example here as it would be easier to illustrate it.
String:
The big brown fox
Average of each character including spaces:
T = 1/17 = .058
h = 1/17 = .058
e = 1/17 = .058
' '= 3/17 = .176
b = 2/17 = .117
i = 1/17 = .058
g = 1/17 = .058
r = 1/17 = .058
o = 2/17 = .117
w = 1/17 = .058
n = 1/17 = .058
f = 1/17 = .058
x = 1/17 = .058
So far all my attempts have failed, think my brain is not working at the moment. How do I code this? Any help or input will be greatly appreciated.
I have this code as a solution. It just came to me when I was copy pasting my code here in stack. I hope this is not a re-post because I just answered the same thing a few minutes ago but it didn't show up.
Map<String, Integer> storeCharCount = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
String a = "The big brown fox";
for (int x=0; x<a.length(); x++){
char getChar = a.charAt(x);
String convGetChar = Character.toString(getChar);
Integer countChar = storeCharCount.get(convGetChar);
storeCharCount.put(convGetChar, (countChar==null?countChar=1:countChar+1));
}
System.out.println("Map: "+ storeCharCount);
double RelFrequency = 0;
for (Map.Entry<String, Integer> getValue: storeCharCount.entrySet()){
RelFrequency = (double)(getValue.getValue())/(a.length());
System.out.println("Character "+getValue.getKey() +" Relative Frequency: "+RelFrequency);
}
Here is the output
Map: {f=1, g=1, =3, e=1, b=2, n=1, o=2, h=1, i=1, w=1, T=1, r=1, x=1}
Character f Relative Frequency: 0.058823529411764705
Character g Relative Frequency: 0.058823529411764705
Character Relative Frequency: 0.17647058823529413
Character e Relative Frequency: 0.058823529411764705
Character b Relative Frequency: 0.11764705882352941
Character n Relative Frequency: 0.058823529411764705
Character o Relative Frequency: 0.11764705882352941
Character h Relative Frequency: 0.058823529411764705
Character i Relative Frequency: 0.058823529411764705
Character w Relative Frequency: 0.058823529411764705
Character T Relative Frequency: 0.058823529411764705
Character r Relative Frequency: 0.058823529411764705
Character x Relative Frequency: 0.058823529411764705