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* Northern Illinois University, College Of Liberal Arts & Sciences
* Department Of Computer Science
* CSCI 240
* Computer Programming in C++
* Spring 2010 *
*
* <http://faculty.cs.niu.edu/~byrnes/csci240/pgms/240pgm10.htm>
*
* Overview
*
* For this assignment, write 2 programs that will process information for the players that were with the Chicago
* Blackhawks during the 2009 - 2010 regular season.
*
* Both of the programs that are to be written for this assignment will deal with structures. The first program will
* create a file of structures. The second will read and display the contents of the file created by the first program.
*
* Structures may contain native data types (like int and double) rather than values converted to characters. This means
* that files that contain structures cannot be created with a normal text editor, nor can they easily be viewed with a
* text editor. Strings and characters may be viewable but the numeric data types will show up as garbage.
*
* The structure that will be used in both of the programs will represent one player. It has fields for the player name,
* number of goals scored, number of assists, and number of shots attempted.
*
* struct playerInfo
* {
* char playerName[25];
* int goalsScored;
* int assists;
* int shots;
* };
*
* Program 1: The Write Program
*
* This program will read some player information from a file, format the information, put it into a structure, and then
* write that structure to an output file.
*
* Input
*
* The input for program 1 will be read from a file called players.txt. The file consists of a set of records for the
* players that played during the 2009 - 2010 regular season. Each record represents one player and is made up of
* multiple fields that are separated by colons. The fields for each player are: the player name, number of goals
* scored, number of assists, and number of shots attempted. A record in the file resembles the following:
*
* Patrick Kane:28:54:233 Output
*
* The output for program 1 will be a file called team.txt, which will contain a structure for each of the players in
* the players.txt file.
*
* Suggested Logic for main()
*
* Create a playerInfo variable, C-Style string, input file stream, and output file stream.
*
* Open the file players.txt for input and verify that it opened correctly
*
* Open the file team.txt for binary output and verify that it opened correctly
*
* Use getline to read the first player from the input file into the C-Style string
*
* While there are input records in the input file
*
* Call the makePlayer function to break the C-Style string into the various fields for the structure
*
* Write the structure to the output file using the write command
*
* Use getline to read the next player from the input file into the C-Style string Endwhile
*
* Close the input and output files main note:
*
* A structure can be written to a file by using the write function. For example:
*
* playerInfo aPlayer;
*
* outFile.write( (char *) &aPlayer, sizeof(aPlayer) ); Function to write and use
*
* void makePlayer( char *inputLine, playerInfo &aPlayer )
*
* This function will take the information in inputLine and break it into the 4 individual fields for a player and use
* them to build a playerInfo structure. It takes 2 arguments: a C-Style string that contains player information and a
* reference to a playerInfo structure that can be used to pass back a player.
*
* As was mentioned above, each of the fields in the C-Style string is separated by a colon. Use the strchr function to
* search for a colon (':') so that each field can be isolated, strcpy or atoi can then be used to put the isolated
* string into the appropriate field of the structure.
*
* The atoi function will be used to convert a string to its numeric representation.
*
* Program 1 Programming Notes:
*
* Add #include <fstream> at the top of your program.
*
* Copy the input file to your hard disk and write your program so that it reads the data from the current directory
* (ie. don't specify a file path).
*
* Write the program so that it writes to the current directory (ie. don't specify a file path).
*
* Make sure to include "write" as part of the CPP file name.
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// MARK: - INCLUDE SYSTEM HEADER FILES
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
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#include "playerInfo.h"
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// MARK: - FUNCTION PROTOTYPES
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void makePlayer(char* inputLine, playerInfo& aPlayer);
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// MARK: - PROGRAM ENTRY POINT
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int main(int argc, const char* argv[])
{
// Open the file players.txt for input and verify that it opened correctly
// Open the file team.txt for binary output and verify that it opened correctly
// Use getline to read the first player from the input file into the C-Style string
// While there are input records in the input file
// Call the makePlayer function to break the C-Style string into the various fields for the structure
// Write the structure to the output file using the write command
// Use getline to read the next player from the input file into the C-Style string Endwhile
// Close the input and output files main note:
}
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// MARK: - PROGRAM SUBROUTINES
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* This function will take the information in inputLine and break it into the 4 individual fields for a player and use
* them to build a playerInfo structure. It takes 2 arguments: a C-Style string that contains player information and a
* reference to a playerInfo structure that can be used to pass back a player.
*
* As was mentioned above, each of the fields in the C-Style string is separated by a colon. Use the strchr function to
* search for a colon (':') so that each field can be isolated, strcpy or atoi can then be used to put the isolated
* string into the appropriate field of the structure.
*
* The atoi function will be used to convert a string to its numeric representation.
*/
void makePlayer(char* inputLine, playerInfo& aPlayer)
{
}
