COM1002 Lab 8 -Solved

Task: Given at most 100 pa/ent names and their blood cell types (BCT), please provide the BCTs of the queried pa/ents.

Detailed SpecificaRons:  

•       Assume that each pa/ent has only one record in the given list.

•       Read the given informa/on (i.e. pa/ent names and their BCTs) and load them to the memory,

i.e. using two different arrays. BCTs occupy at most 4 characters.

•       Pa/ent names may be queried from the standard input using a mix of capital and small leIers. Assume a match if the names match case insensi/vely.

•       Assume that each pa/ent name occupies at most 15 characters.  

•       Output pa/ent names will be printed using all small leIers.

•       If the query item name is not in the given list, your program should print 0+ to the screen.  

•       The list of pa/ent names and their BCTs are separated from the query names with the word: start

•       The query items are terminated with the word: end

Input format: [S] stands for a Space character 

<paRent1_name>[S]< BCT1> 

<paRent2_name>[S]< BCT2> 

.. 

<paRentN_name>[S]< BCTN> 

start 

< paRentX_name> < paRentY_name> 

< paRentZ_name> 

.. 

end 

Output Forma_:  

< paRentX_name>[S]< BCTX> 

< paRentY_name>[S]< BCTY>  

< paRentZ_name>[S]0+                                                               // ! does not exist! 

.. 

Hints: 

1.       You can include <string.h> file and use related string func/ons if you need them.

2.       You can use [100][15] two dimensional character array to store the pa/ent names.

3.       You can use [100][5] two dimensional char array to store BCTs.

4.       When you load pa/ent names to the names character array, you should load the corresponding prices to the second (BCT) array with the same row index.

TesRng: 

We provided you a sample I/O file pair. Test your programs with these files while developing your program. Moreover, create your own test files according to the specifica/ons to test more.  

As usual, use input redirec+on mechanism of your opera/ng system to test your programs. For example, if your executable is called as Lab8, redirect the input.txt file to standard input using < operator and redirect your outputs to a file using > operator such as:

> ./Lab8<input.txt>output.txt 

This kind of execu/on enables your programs to read inputs from a file without wri/ng any file related func/ons (e.g. fopen(), fscanf() etc.). In other words, the getchar() or scanf() func/ons in your code reads data from the redirected files instead of the std. input in this way (e.g. keyboard).