Perhaps your teacher has more faith in your ability to do your homework than you do -- in which case, the best cure will be doing even better than the teacher expects (but that does NOT mean asking the Monks to do the work).

Or, perhaps you've given the homework more consideration than you've shown us. That's a bad mistake, because we expect you to show some effort -- code, warnings and or error messages (verbatim) or failure modes.

And describing a "mess" does not satisfy that criterion. Show us.

And, you have a perfectly good approach already described by choroba, above and an alternate, if the teacher is expecting you to use material that hasn't been explicitly lectured or covered (perhaps implicitly) in assigned reading.

In reply to Re: frequency strings 2 files by ww
in thread frequency strings 2 files by philbertcheese86

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