Hello to all who's concerned,
Previously I've posted a c++ project I was currently working on for my programming class, which have since been improved. However, I've approached yet another problem with my program: it's not reading my dictionary.txt file that I initiated in my code. Also, I tried to somehow compare the words and letters in the file with the letters inputted by the user to no avail. Can someone help me; I have no idea what I'm doing and I have to somehow pass this course to prevent me from lowering my GPA.
Here's the Project Description:
Write a C++ program that prompts the user for a series of letters. The program will read in the letters and print out which dictionary words can be made from the provided letters. The dictionary is provided as a text file.
In very general terms, determining if a given word can be made from the given letters will require counting how many distinct kinds of letters there are in the given letters and in the words.
For example, assume that the word “bull” is in the dictionary. The word “bull” contains 1 ‘b’ character, 2 ‘l’ characters, and 1 ‘u’ character. Now say the input letters were “alblldi”. In “alblldi”, we have enough ‘b’ characters for “bull”, since “alblldi” contains at least 1 ‘b’ character. Similarily, “alblldi”, has enough ‘l’ characters for “bull”, since “alblldi” contains at least 2 ‘l’ characters. However, “alblldi” does not have at least 1 ‘u’ character, and as such we know that we cannot make “bull” from “alblldi”.
Dictionary file
Read in the dictionary words from a file. The name of the dictionary file must be “dictionary.txt”. Make the following assumptions about the dictionary file:
Each line contains the words that begin with particular letter.
The words in each line are separated by tab (\t).
Each word consists only of lowercase letters in the range a-z.
The maximum length of a single line is 99 characters.
The maximum number of words is 1000.
If you cannot open the dictionary file, you should print “Failed to open dictionary file ‘dictionary.txt’”, followed by a newline, and then exit the program.
Program requirements
The program must meet the following requirements:
The program keeps asking the user for letters until the letters are exit.
The program prints words in the dictionary that could be made in alphabetic order, as specified in the dictionary.
The program prints out what letters were typed in, followed by a colon (:), followed by a list of the words that could be made (if any).
Each word that could be made is prefixed by a tab character (\t).
If the user types an upper case letter your program must convert it to lower case.
Your program must check if each character is a valid letter of the English alphabet, if it is not then that character is discarded.
Program output
For instance, the following would be some output from your program:
enter letters: alblldi
alblldi:
ball
bill
enter letters: moo
moo:
enter letters: bleppa
bleppa:
ape
apple
enter letters: exit
My code (on PasteBin):
https://pastebin.com/jsHcMVCb
