huffman

An implementation of Huffman algorithm in Crystal for learning purposes (using 0 and 1 in a String array).

To compress real files a new implementation using BitArray should be required.

A real usecase of Huffman coding is Zstandard and Huff0 used in kernel compresion

Huffman code is a particular type of optimal prefix code that is commonly used for lossless data compression.

Installation

1. Add the dependency to your shard.yml:

   dependencies:
     huffman:
       github: faustinoaq/huffman
   

2. Run shards install

Usage

require "huffman"

h = Huffman.new # Using ASCII table

p h.encode("Hello World") # => 1111100111011011001001100100110001000111001010010110001011010001100100111010

h = Huffman.new("Hello World") # Using "Hello World"

p h.encode("Hello World") # => 01000101000001111011101110000101

p h.decode("01000101000001111011101110000101") # => Hello World

Development

See Crystal Official Site

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Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/faustinoaq/huffman/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• Faustino Aguilar - creator and maintainer