huffman-code-archiver

Simple archiver based on Huffman coding

Usage

make to compile

./huffman [flags] to run

-c - to compress

-u - to decompress

-f <path> / --file <path> - input file name

-o <path> / --output <path> - output file name

Sample output

$ ./huffman -c -f myfile.txt -o result.bin

15678 -- Size of source data

6172 -- Size of encoded data (without additional information)

482 -- Size of additional information

$ ./huffman -u -f result.bin -o myfile_new.txt

6172 -- Size of encoded data (without additional information)

15678 -- Size of decoded data

482 -- Size of additional information