CS4437DSA

Search engine for text books, focusing in on the data structure for storing files and algorithms for search, insertion and deletion.

Prerequisites

Download Books

1. Download Books from https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top using python script
2. Format the books using python script //removes unwanted text form start and end of the book

 cd python
 python3 pull_books.py
 python3 format_books.py
 cd ..

Build Instructions

For Windows

1. Make sure you have CMake installed
   you can check this by running cmake --version
2. Open command prompt and run the following commands in the project directory

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .

For Mac/Linux

1. Make sure you have CMake installed
   you can check this by running cmake --version
2. Open a terminal and run the following command in the project directory

./rebuld

Running the application

1. Open a terminal/command prompt and change directory into the build directory
2. Run the following command to run the application:

cd build
./App

Running tests

1. Open a terminal/command prompt and change directory into the build directory
2. Run the following command to run the application:

ctest

Example Usage

• Once the application is running, you can use the following commands to interact with the application:

  • 1 - reload index books, if a new book is added this will update the index
  • 2 : search books for key word
  • 3 <word>: search books for a specific word
  • 4: exit the application

  Example Terminal Output