Project #5
Scavenger Hunt
(Due 12 April 2006)
The big annual scavenger hunt has just completed. This year, there were more teams than ever, although there were fewer than the goal of 150. The teams searched for two days to find the required items and brought their finds to the judges who verified that they were the correct items. The judges then recorded the results in the file finds.txt You are to write a program to evaluate these results in several ways. To do this, your program needs to use the information in the file huntitems.txt This file contains a list of the items the scavengers are to find and the number of points each item is worth. The file begins as follows:
clothespin
5
hardbound-Hamlet 20
pocket-watch
15
child's-toothbrush 5
Wendy's-coupon 8
African-mask
36
Multi-word items have hyphens connecting the words so that each item may be treated as a single string. The numbers show the points awarded for finding the item; each item is worth less than 100 points. A team can get credit for an item only once. There are fewer than 50 items in the huntitems.txt file. Your program is allowed to read the huntitems.txt file only once.
For each team competing in the scavenger hunt, there is a one-line entry in the finds.txt file. The form of a line entry is
First_Name Last_Name No_Items_Found List_of_Items_Found
The first and last names refer to the team's leader. The list contains the names of the items that the team found. There is no particular order to the list. Because teams may find 30 or more items, the entry for a team may be quite long. Below are the first two entries in the finds.txt file; the entries have wrapped onto multiple lines because of their length.
Dennis Mitchell 12 beads bandaid
balloon green-tic-tac
Wendy's-coupon shot-glass-with-picture
child's-toothbrush
novelty-hat windshield-wiper blue-candle
whistle nutcracker
Charlie Brown 19 bandaid clothespin
green-tic-tac
Wendy's-coupon beads novelty-hat
blue-candle
lawyer's-business-card dried-flower nutcracker
kaleidoscope
3-hole-punch lens-cap whistle child's-toothbrush
orange-flashlight floppy-disk-holder
pocket-watch 2001-calendar
Your program needs to determine and display
the following information.
Leaders and Team Scores for Top 3 Places
Hilary Forth 515
Rex Morgan 509
Mark Trail 489
Hand in a printout of your well-documented program and the captured output from executing your program. Also, copy the .cpp file for your program to the hand-in folder on the P: drive.
You can find the finds.txt and huntitems.txt
files on either the I: drive in I:\jlwolfe\110 or the P: drive in P:\courses\spring2006\cosc\cosc110\xxx\information
where the xxx is your section number (002 or 003).
Extra Credit: You can get extra credit for this project by doing two small additional tasks.
1. Display the number of teams that found the easiest to find item. The display should show what this item is and how many points it is worth. You are guaranteed that there is only one item which fits this description.
2. Display the number of teams that
found 30 or more items.