CS2400 -Homework 7 Book Project, Part 1 Solved

Design a class to keep track of a book. Each book has a title, year, and an author.  Your class must include the following constructors and functions (function names and prototype must match exactly):  

• Book() 

o A constructor that initializes a book to the default values: ("***", 0, "***"). 

• Book(string newTitle, int newYear, string newAuthor);
o A constructor that initializes a book’s title, year, and author to the specified parameters.

• Book(string allData)
o A constructor that splits the string specified (allData ) into the three book properties. The string is in the following format:

§ title|year|author
§ Example:   

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|1979|Douglas Adams" 

•        Setters (mutators) for all three member variables (e.g. setTitle)

•        Getters (accessors) for all three member variables (e.g. getTitle)

• bool matchTitle(string targetTitle)
o Returns true if targetTitle is part of the book title o Using the example above it should return true if targetTitle is "galaxy", "GUIDE tO", "the hit", etc.

• bool matchAuthor(string targetAuthor)
o Returns true if targetAuthor is part of the name of the lead author o Using the example above it should return true if targetTitle is "Doug", "LAS", "aDaMs", etc.

• bool matchYear(string targetYear)
o   Returns true if targetYear matches any part of the year.  

o   Using the example above it should return true if targetYear is "79", "19",  or "1979" etc.

• bool match(string target);
o Returns true if target can be found any where in the book member variables § Using the example above it should return true if target is "97", 

"douglas", "hitch", etc.

 

Write a main program to test all the functions. 

 

Project Files:  

Divide your project into three files:

•        book.h 

o   Contains the class definition

•        book.cc 

o   Contains the class implementation (all the functions)

• book_main.cc
o Main program to test your class Compiling your project: 

1. g++ -Wall -c book.cc 

•        This creates the object file book.o 

2. g++ -Wall -c book_main.cc 

•        This creates the object file book_main.o 

3. g++ book.o book_main.o  
• This creates the executable a.out 

 

or

     g++ -Wall -std=c++11 -c book.cc book_main.cc
There is a Makefile provided to allow you to compile your program using the command:  

          make  
 

If you are using C++11 add the option –std=c++11 to your compile commands.

 

Hints: 

•        Start early. You may start by putting everything in one file and separate them later.

•        Implement the getters, and setters functions first then start implementing the match functions one at a time. Test every function immediately after you write it.  

•        You may want to implement an output function to test your objects.

•        Review the string functions. They will be useful in this project.

•        Write a function that converts a string to all lower case.  

•        The function stoi allows you to convert a string object to an integer. It requires compiling your program with -std=c++11 option. int x = stoi("123"); will return the integer 123

•        The function to_string converts a number to string. string s = to_string(123);  will set s to the string "123"

 

For the third constructor, use the find and the substr string member functions