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Top K Words

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package com.thealgorithms.others;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

/* display the most frequent K words in the file and the times it appear
in the file – shown in order (ignore case and periods) */
public class TopKWords {

    static class CountWords {

        private String fileName;

        public CountWords(String fileName) {
            this.fileName = fileName;
        }

        public Map<String, Integer> getDictionary() {
            Map<String, Integer> dictionary = new HashMap<>();
            FileInputStream fis = null;

            try {
                fis = new FileInputStream(fileName); // open the file
                int in = 0;
                String s = ""; // init a empty word
                in = fis.read(); // read one character

                while (-1 != in) {
                    if (Character.isLetter((char) in)) {
                        s += (char) in; // if get a letter, append to s
                    } else {
                        // this branch means an entire word has just been read
                        if (s.length() > 0) {
                            // see whether word exists or not
                            if (dictionary.containsKey(s)) {
                                // if exist, count++
                                dictionary.put(s, dictionary.get(s) + 1);
                            } else {
                                // if not exist, initiate count of this word with 1
                                dictionary.put(s, 1);
                            }
                        }
                        s = ""; // reInit a empty word
                    }
                    in = fis.read();
                }
                return dictionary;
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } finally {
                try {
                    // you always have to close the I/O streams
                    if (fis != null) {
                        fis.close();
                    }
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
            return null;
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // you can replace the filePath with yours
        CountWords cw = new CountWords("/Users/lisanaaa/Desktop/words.txt");
        Map<String, Integer> dictionary = cw.getDictionary(); // get the words dictionary: {word: frequency}

        // we change the map to list for convenient sort
        List<Map.Entry<String, Integer>> list = new ArrayList<>(dictionary.entrySet());

        // sort by lambda valueComparator
        list.sort(Comparator.comparing(m -> m.getValue()));

        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
        int k = input.nextInt();
        while (k > list.size()) {
            System.out.println("Retype a number, your number is too large");
            input = new Scanner(System.in);
            k = input.nextInt();
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < k; i++) {
            System.out.println(list.get(list.size() - i - 1));
        }
        input.close();
    }
}