Laboratory Exercise Week 11 solution

Task One: String stream
Use ostringstream and istringstream to implement the following two functions in a file stringIO.cpp by assuming that the operators << and have been overloaded for type T.
template<class T
string toString (T value); // convert a value into a string
template <class T
T toValue(string str); // extract the value from a string
Defined a class Student in a file Student.h and implemented the member functions in a file Student.cpp. The class Student can be defined like following
class Student {
private:
string firstname;
string lastname;
int id; // student number
float gpa;
public:
// all necessary functions to be defined here
… …
};
Implement a main() function in stringIO.cpp to test the two functions in the cases where T is integer, double and class Student.
You need to define and implement the student class properly in order to test the two template functions and assume the input string for the student class is in the following format.
First-name:last-name:student-number:gpa
For example:
John:Anderson:1234567:6.35
Testing:
Compile the program in this task by:
CC –o task1 stringIO.cpp Student.cpp
Run the program (You may use different values)
./task1
Input an integer: 12345678
Integer to string: 12345678
String to integer: 12345678
Input a double: 3214.654
Double to string: 3214.65
String to double: 3214.65
Input a student record (first-name:last-name:number:gpa): David:Smith:1234567:3.65
Student to string:
David:Smith:1234567:3.65
String to Student:
David:Smith:1234567:3.65
Note: The outputs above indicate different types of data.
Task Two: Containers and generic functions
Implement C++ code in a file task2.cpp include main() function that read input data for students; add students’ records in a vector container; use generic functions copy to copy the students’ records from a vector to a deque container; display the records in the deque container by using its iterator to travel through the container; then use sort function to sort the students’ records by their last names and first names inside the deque container; finally display the sorted records by using the generic copy function.
Hint: You should define comparison operator (<) for the class Student and define a
function object to compare two students.
Testing:
Compile the program in this task by:
CC –o task2 task2.cpp Student.cpp
./task2
Number of Student records: 5
John:Smith:1234567:3.21
Taylor:Swift:7654321:5.43
Joan:Anderson:1122334:4.25
Bob:Cook:2211443:3.89
Marry:Brand:1234432:5.23
There are 5 records in the vector.
Copy Students from vector to deque:
John:Smith:1234567:3.21
Taylor:Swift:7654321:5.43
Joan:Anderson:1122334:4.25
Bob:Cook:2211443:3.89
Marry:Brand:1234432:5.23
Sorted records in deque:
Joan:Anderson:1122334:4.25
Marry:Brand:1234432:5.23
Bob:Cook:2211443:3.89
John:Smith:1234567:3.21
Taylor:Swift:7654321:5.43
You can download the testing file input2.txt from Moodle.
Task Three: Binary file and vector
Download the source files Employee.h and Employee.cpp from the web site. Implement main() function in a file task3Main.cpp that read employees’ records from the given binary file from the command line and save the records into a vector container. Then use iterator to access each Employee record in the vector container and print out all the information.
You will consider there is no file name passed from the command line or the file not exists.
Testing:
Compile the program in this task by:
CC –o task3 task3Main.cpp Employee.cpp
When you run the program
./task3
Usage: ./task3 binary-file-name
When you run the program with a file name which does not exist.
./task3 mydata.dat
Error: The file mydata.dat not exists or cannot be opened.
When you test the program with a binary file (edate.bin can be downloaded from the web site),
./task3 edata.bin
The output will be
Employee ID: 100
First name: aaa
Last name: bbb
Pay rate/hour: $00105.28
Employee ID: 101
First name: bbb
Last name: ccc
Pay rate/hour: $00120.38