Malloc the Barbarian and Calloc, his faithful wife,
are heroes in Tatooinian folklore. You will honor their
memory with this assignment.
Part 1:
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Write a program that provides the user with a simple
menu that includes the following options:
1. Sort data by the float value & print high to low
2. Sort data by the float value & print low to high
3. Sort data by the int value & print high to low
4. Sort data by the int value & print low to high
5. Exit
Of course, the menu must repeatedly be displayed until
the user selects the "exit" option. You will need an
infinite loop (while do loop?) to accomplish ths.
The only thing allowed in the main routine is the code
required to handle the menu and calls to functions to
read the data and sort it.
Part 2:
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For menu options 1, 2, 3 & 4 your program must call a
function that opens a file of unknown size and stores
the data in a array of struct. The file will
be called hw3.data. The file will contain a string, a
float, an int and string. Below is a sample file:
F150 5.4 28000 white
RAM1500 5.7 32000 orange
The code to handle this MUST be a function separate from
the main routine.
Note that the array must be dynamically allocated. You MUST
use calloc() or malloc() to create this array. Also, you
MUST call free() as appropriate.
Part 3:
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For menu options 1, 2, 3 & 4 your program must call a
function that sorts the data HIGH TO LOW by the appropriate
component. Since we are sorting the data by 2 different
components you are allowed to have 2 different sort
functions. But, ONLY 2!
Part 4:
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For menu options 1, 2, 3 & 4 your program must call a
function that prints the resulting data. Since you must
print the data high to low or low to high, you are allowed
to have 2 routines. But, only 2!
REQUIREMENTS:
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1. Your program must run on Linux Mint.
2. Your full name must appear as a comment at the beginning of your
program.
3. Your source code must be named hw3-yourname.c
