Add this to your Cargo.toml:
toml
[dependencies]
huffman-encoding = "0.1"
rust
// weights are represented as value -> frequency pairs
let weights = vec![
("hello".to_string(), 2),
("hey".to_string(), 3),
("howdy".to_string(), 1),
];
let huffman = huffman_encoding::Huffman::new(weights).unwrap();
let data = vec!["howdy".into(), "howdy".into(), "hey".into(), "hello".into()];
// encode into a bit_vec::BitVec
let encoded = huffman.encode(&data).unwrap();
// decode back into a Vec<String>
let decoded = huffman.decode_owned(&encoded);