Starting Out with Python (3rd Edition)
Starting Out with Python (3rd Edition)
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ISBN: 9780133582734
Author: Tony Gaddis
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 8, Problem 10PE
Program Plan Intro

Most Frequent Character

Program Plan:

  • • Declare a function named “findFrequentCharacter()” that accepts a string “my_string” as input. Inside the function,
    • ○ Create a list variable “countList” to store the frequency of all alphabets.
    • ○ Use the “for” loop to process all the characters in the “my_string” to check for frequency.
    • ○ Inside the “for” loop,
      • ■ Check if the current character “ch” is the alphabet.
      • ■ If so, then find the ASCII value of the character and store it in “n”.
      • ■ Check if the ASCII value of the character indicates the uppercase alphabet.
      • ■ If the condition is true, then find the index of the character in the “countList” by subtracting “65” from “n”.
      • ■ If the condition fails, then ASCII value of the character indicates the lowercase alphabet.
      • ■ Thus, find the index of the character in the “countList” by subtracting “97” from “n” value and store it in “n”.
      • ■ Using the “n” as the index, increment the value at “n” in the “countList” by “1”.
    • ○ After processing all the characters in the “my_string”, declare a variable “maxVal” to hold the highest value of occurrences.
    • ○ Also, declare a variable “maxValPos” to hold the position of the “maxVal” in the “countList”.
    • ○ Use the “for” loop to find the highest value in the “countList”.
    • ○ Inside the “for” loop,
      • ■ Check if the current value is higher than “maxVal”.
      • ■ If so, then update the “maxVal” with the current value and update the “maxValPos”.
    • ○ Convert the “maxVal” into the ASCII value by adding “97” with it.
    • ○ After that, convert the “maxVal” into character and return it.
  • • Declare a function named “main()”. Inside the “main()” function,
    • ○ Get a string from the user and store it in “my_string” variable.
    • ○ Call the function “findFrequentCharacter()” and pass “my_string” as input to the function and store the return value in “frequentCharacter”.
    • ○ Display the “frequentCharacter” using the “print()” function.
  • • In the last, call the function “main()” to execute the program.

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