More Than Equations

It's Raining Strings

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🔖 Background Information

This problem is available courtey of Professor Jason James (James, 2017).

🎯 Problem Statement

Allow a user to enter the names of any number of local businesses. When a user enters a name, sort the current list of business names and display the results. Continue this process until the user exits the program.

✅ Acceptance Criteria

  • The program should print a welcome message when the user executes it.
  • The user should be able to enter a business name that contains alphanumeric characters and special characters.
  • You are allowed to use methods from the standard library (e.g. std::sort or std::vector)
  • The user should be able to enter “y”, “Y”, “yes”, or “Yes” to confirm that they want to enter another business name. Other inputs should exit the program gracefully.
  • The program should print a goodbye message when the user exits.

📋 Dev Notes

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🖥️ Example Output

$ ./busisort.out
 
Welcome to the Business Sorting Program!
 
Please enter the name of a business:  WalMart
 
Your business is:
 
    WalMart
 
Another business?  y
 
Please enter the name of a business:  JC Penney
 
Your businesses are:
 
    JC Penney
    WalMart
 
Another business?  Y
 
Please enter the name of a business:  Merlin Muffler
 
Your businesses are:
 
    JC Penney
    Merlin Muffler
    WalMart
 
Another business?  yes
 
Please enter the name of a business:  Appleby's
 
Your businesses are:
 
    Appleby's
    JC Penney
    Merlin Muffler
    WalMart
 
Another business?  Yes
 
Please enter the name of a business:  Zippy's
 
Your businesses are:
 
    Appleby's
    JC Penney
    Merlin Muffler
    WalMart
    Zippy's
 
Another business?  no
 
Thank you for using the Business Sorting Program!

📝 Thought Provoking Questions

  1. What are some strategies that you can use to handle spaces in the business names?
  2. How might you store multiple strings / c-strings in a single variable?
  3. How might you sort strings / c-strings?
  4. How would you access a single row of a 2D array?

💼 Add-Ons For the Portfolio

(One Credit) C-strings Versus String Class

When completing this lab, you probably used c-strings or the C++ string class to store the business names. Refactor your code to use c-strings if you used the string class and vice versa. The output of the program should be identical to what you had before.

🔗 Useful Links

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📘 Works Cited

James, J. (2017). It’s Raining Strings! In Jason James’ Homepage. http://craie-programming.org/122/labs/strsort.html

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