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morgancassiday (41)
Hello. I'm having trouble with my program reading through a txt file and breaking up the text file.
I need to read through the txt file and change the format of each line. However my program is pausing at the first like. Here is the directions. Any help would be appreciated
Write a C++ program to process air traffic control data stored in a comma-delimited file. The data relates to incidents of severe turbulence and you wish to create a plain text summary report for the file.
You will not know how many lines of data will be in the file. The format for the file will be:
{date},{airportcode},{distance from city},{flightlevel},{flightID}

An example data line for the file could be:
2013-05-07-1430,DTW,150SW,FL330,Delta123
The airport code will always be precisely three characters. The distance string will of course will vary,but the number will always be a one or two-digit integer followed by a two-character compass direction (N=north, NE-northeast, E=east, and so on). The altitude is presented as a coded number requiring the digits after the “FL” to be extracted. Add two zeroes to this value (along with a comma) to convert the flight altitude to feet.. Finally, the aircraft identifier will vary in the number of characters but will always be the last field in the line.
Be sure to use an end-of-file loop to drive the processing of your program. Each line of the input file includes one flight, time, and location. For each line of input, write an output message that can be printed:

THIS IS THE NEEDED OUTPUT.

Flight: Delta 123
Date: May 7, 2013
Time: 2:30 pm
Location: 150 miles southwest of Detroit Metropolitan Airport
Altitude: 33,000 feet

Here is the text file

2013-05-07-1430,DTW,150SW,FL330,Delta123
2013-05-13-2245,JXN,50N,FL310,Southwest97
2013-06-01-0020,MBS,5S,FL250,United1120
2013-05-09-0550,TVC,20NW,FL200,Spirit55
2013-06-02-1200,MKG,40W,FL220,USAir456
2013-05-22-1715,MCD,15NE,FL290,American99
2013-05-30-0645,BAX,40SE,FL350,Alaska12
morgancassiday (41)
Here is my code

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// This program processes air traffic control data stored in a comma-delimited file
// The data relates to incidents of severe turbulence 
// and displays a plain text summary report for the file.
#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
#include <fstream> 
#include <iostream> 
#include <iomanip> 
#include <string> 
#include <cstring>
#include <cmath>

using namespace std;

typedef char AirportType[4];
typedef char AirportNameType[50];
typedef char LocationType[31];
void substring(char inStr[], int start, int end, char outStr[]);
int strIndex(char inStr[], int start, char searchTarget);
void DateChg(char dateTime[]);
void Location(char distanceCity[]);

void flightchg(char flightID[]);
void flightlev(char flightlevel[]);

const int MAX_ARRAY = 1200;
char buffer[MAX_ARRAY + 1]; // +1 for null char
int main()
{

	char datetime[16];
	char airportCode[4];
	char distCity[8];
	char flightlevel[6];
	char flightID[20];



	// File initialization 
	ifstream inFile("flights.txt");
	if (inFile.fail())         // Test for file existence 
	{
		cout << "Problem opening file";
		exit(-1);
	}

	// Read file and count values in array 


	while (inFile.getline(buffer, MAX_ARRAY))
	{
		int start = 0;
		int end = strIndex(buffer, start, ',');
		substring(buffer, start, end - 1, datetime);
		start = end + 1;
		end = strIndex(buffer, start, ',');
		substring(buffer, start, end - 1, airportCode);
		start = end + 1;
		end = strIndex(buffer, start, ',');
		substring(buffer, start, end - 1, distCity);
		start = end + 1;
		end = strIndex(buffer, start, ',');
		substring(buffer, start, end - 1, flightlevel);
		start = end + 1;
		end = strIndex(buffer, start, ',');
		substring(buffer, start, strlen(buffer) - 1, flightID);

		flightchg(flightID);
		DateChg(datetime);
		Location(distCity);

		flightlev(flightlevel);


	}
	system("pause");
	return 0;
}
void substring(char inStr[], int start, int end, char outStr[])
{
	strcpy(outStr, "");             // Empty output string 

	int pos = 0;                    // To mark curr position of substring 
	for (int i = start; i <= end; i++)
	{
		outStr[pos] = inStr[i];      // Move character to output string 
		pos++;                       // Manually advance position marker 
	}

	outStr[pos] = '\0';             // Add null character to complete string 
}
int strIndex(char inStr[], int start, char searchTarget)
{
	int pos = start;       // Set position marker to start index 
	int returnPos = -1;    // Character position marker, assume not found 
	bool found = false;    // Assume not found at start 

	while (inStr[pos] != '\0' && !found)
	{
		if (inStr[pos] == searchTarget)   // If character found, 
		{
			returnPos = pos;               // Mark position 
			found = true;                  // Ready for exit from loop 
		}
		else
			pos++;                         // Otherwise, move to next character 

	}
	return returnPos;                    // Return value 
}
// get airport name date



// This function converts the date into a different form and displays it
void DateChg(char dateTime[])
{
	char year[5];
	char month[3];
	char day[3];
	char hours[3];
	char minutes[3];
	substring(dateTime, 0, 3, year);
	substring(dateTime, 5, 6, month);
	substring(dateTime, 8, 9, day);
	substring(dateTime, 11, 12, hours);
	substring(dateTime, 13, 14, minutes);

	cout << "Date: ";

	int m = atoi(month);
	switch (m)
	{
	case 1: cout << "January "; break;
	case 2: cout << "February "; break;
	case 3: cout << "March "; break;
	case 4: cout << "April "; break;
	case 5: cout << "May "; break;
	case 6: cout << "June "; break;
	case 7: cout << "July "; break;
	case 8: cout << "August "; break;
	case 9: cout << "September "; break;
	case 10: cout << "October "; break;
	case 11: cout << "November "; break;
	case 12: cout << "December "; break;
	}
	cout << day << ", " << year << endl;

	if (strcmp(hours, "00") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "12:" << minutes << "AM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "01") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "1:" << minutes << "AM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "02") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "2:" << minutes << "AM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "03") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "3:" << minutes << "AM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "04") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "4:" << minutes << "AM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "05") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "5:" << minutes << "AM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "06") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "6:" << minutes << "AM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "07") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "7:" << minutes << "AM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "08") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "8:" << minutes << "AM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "09") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "9:" << minutes << "AM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "10") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "10:" << minutes << "AM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "11") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "11:" << minutes << "AM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "12") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "12:" << minutes << "PM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "13") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "1:" << minutes << "PM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "14") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "2:" << minutes << "PM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "15") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "3:" << minutes << "PM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "16") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "4:" << minutes << "PM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "17") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "5:" << minutes << "PM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "18") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "6:" << minutes << "PM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "19") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "7:" << minutes << "PM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "20") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "8:" << minutes << "PM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "21") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "9:" << minutes << "PM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "22") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "10:" << minutes << "PM" << endl;
	else if (strcmp(hours, "23") == 00)
		cout << "Time: " << "11:" << minutes << "PM" << endl;
}

// This function takes the distance and airport code
// Changes it to the airport name and distance in miles
// Displays it in the proper format
void Location(char distanceCity[])
{
	char distance[6];
	char direction[3];
	int start = 0, end;
	for (end = start; isdigit(distanceCity[end]); ++end);
	substring(distanceCity, start, end - 1, distance);
	start = end;
	end = strIndex(distanceCity, start, '\0');
	substring(distanceCity, start, strlen(distanceCity) - 1, direction);
	cout << "Location: " << distance << " miles ";
	if (strcmp(direction, "SW") == 0)
		cout << "southwest of ";
	else if (strcmp(direction, "SE") == 0)
		cout << "southeast of ";
	else if (strcmp(direction, "NE") == 0)
		cout << "north east of";
	else if (strcmp(direction, "NW") == 0)
		cout << "north west of";
	else if (strcmp(direction, "N") == 0)
		cout << "north of ";
	else if (strcmp(direction, "S") == 0)
		cout << "south of ";
	else if (strcmp(direction, "E") == 0)
		cout << "east of ";
	else if (strcmp(direction, "W") == 0)
		cout << "west of ";
}
// This function takes the Flight ID and
// Displays it properly
void flightchg(char flightID[])
{
	char word[5];
	char num[4];
	substring(flightID, 0, 4, word);
	substring(flightID, 5, 7, num);
	cout << "Flight: " << word << " " << num << endl;
}
// This function takes the flight level and changes
// the altitude to feet and displays it
void flightlev(char flightlevel[])
{
	char flight[3];
	char level[4];

	substring(flightlevel, 0, 2, level);
	substring(flightlevel, 3, 4, flight);
	cout << "Altitude: " << level  << "00 feet" << endl;
}
mgoetschius (96)
There's a lot to go through here, but right off, your substring function is not going to work the way you want it to. You are passing your 4th argument (outStr[]) by value and you need to pass it by reference. As a result, your char strings are never defined and you're passing around uninitialized variables.
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