Justin holm

count.rb

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+class Counter
+  def initialize
+    file = File.open("speech.txt", "r")
+    words = []
+
+    file.each do |line|
+      words.concat(line.split)
+    end
+
+    # Initialize a new hash with default key values of 0
+    word_count = Hash.new(0)
+
+    words.each do |word|
+      # Strip and replace anything that is not a-z
+      word = word.downcase.gsub(/[^a-z]/, '')
+      word_count[word] += 1
+    end
+
+    # Reverse our order, show the most frequently typed words first
+    word_count = word_count.sort_by{ |k, v| v }.reverse!
+    puts word_count
+  end
+end
+
+Counter.new