Rust, Undergrad project 1 (project 3 for class)

Due: Tuesday  Oct 16th

Summary: For our first rust project we are going to write the same program that we did for Go, to compare the two languages directly.

Details:

Write a Rust program which:

• prompts the user to choose a text file (for simplicity, you may keep your files in your working directory).
• Once the user has chosen a file,
• open the file,
• read it in,
•  and count how many times each word is used.
• Finally, print out the list of words and their counts
• both to the standard output and to a file
• tell the user which file you wrote to.

Take a look at chapter 16 collections and chapter 17 on text to get hints on hashmaps and regular expressions to do this project.

For full credit, strip out the punctuation and other non-alphabetic characters before you count words. Or you can leave them in for a max grade of a B+

As one of your files, be sure to try your program on War and Peace, one of the bigger classics of recent years.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2600/2600-0.txt

Submission:

    zip up your go project with source files and at least two sample files. and submit via blackboard