RosettaCodeData/Task/Entropy/CLU/entropy.clu

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% NOTE: when compiling with Portable CLU,
% this program needs to be merged with 'useful.lib' to get log()
%
% pclu -merge $CLUHOME/lib/useful.lib -compile entropy.clu
shannon = proc (s: string) returns (real)
% find the frequency of each character
freq: array[int] := array[int]$fill(0, 256, 0)
for c: char in string$chars(s) do
i: int := char$c2i(c)
freq[i] := freq[i] + 1
end
% calculate the component for each character
h: real := 0.0
rlen: real := real$i2r(string$size(s))
for i: int in array[int]$indexes(freq) do
if freq[i] ~= 0 then
f: real := real$i2r(freq[i]) / rlen
h := h - f * log(f) / log(2.0)
end
end
return (h)
end shannon
start_up = proc ()
po: stream := stream$primary_output()
stream$putl(po, f_form(shannon("1223334444"), 1, 6))
end start_up