Counting the number of occurrences of words in a textfile?

Yes, a dictionary with word-occurence pairs would work fine, and the usual way to implement such a dictionary would be to use a hash table (or, sometimes, a binary search tree).

Just for the curious, here is a simple Ruby solution of the word count problem. It should be basically the same algorithm in C, just with a lot more code.

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