📚 Text File Word Counter

This Go project reads a .txt file and analyzes the word frequency within it. It displays the total number of words and the top 5 most frequently used words in the file.

✅ Features

• Reads text files line by line
• Cleans and normalizes words (e.g., removes punctuation, lowercases)
• Calculates word frequency using a map[string]int
• Displays:
  • Total number of words
  • Top 5 most frequent words with their counts

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🛠️ Requirements

• Go 1.20 or later

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📂 Project Structure

projectGolang/ 
├── main.go
├── file.txt
├── go.mod
├── README.md
├── file/
│   └── reader.go
├── counter/
│   └── counter.go

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🚀 Usage Instructions

1. Clone the repository (or place your .go files as shown above).

   git clone https://github.com/Olzzhass/projectGo.git
   

2. Initialize Go module (if not already):

   go mod init projectGolang
   

3. Run the program

   go run main.go <path-to-your-text-file>
   

4. Example Output

Total words in file: 372
Top 5 most frequent words:
1. the (28 occurrences)
2. and (17 occurrences)
3. of (15 occurrences)
4. to (14 occurrences)
5. a (13 occurrences)