BIT 1400 Assignment 5

Future Date Calculator

Have you ever wondered what date falls 259 days in the future, without taxing your brain? Now, with this assignment you can!

This assignment is intended to see if youve learned the basic concepts talked about thus far in the lectures.

• You will be required to use the function getDayOfYear() provided in the attached .cpp file, you can paste it over to your cpp.
• You will be required to read from a text file in your program
  • download the txt file attached to this assignment, open it in a text editor to familiarize yourself, your program must use this file.

Program

Use the attached txt file.

Use the function provided in the attached cpp file, this function requires that ctime be included

The file contains information about the months and lengths of a month of a year.

The 2 lines of the file contain:

• Month-ordered abbreviations of the 12 months in a year
• Month-ordered number of days for each month
  Note: for this assignment you do not need to consider leap years
  As you can see, row 1 and row 2 are related.

Your submission must:

• Load the rows into appropriately named and sized arrays by reading from the file.
• Ask the user: How many days in the future they want to display the date for?
• Show the user the (abbreviated) Month and Day of the month that the day in the future falls on.

Note: for this assignment you do not need to consider leap years

• Your program must only accept unsigned int values from the user (hint: look at code from previous assignments
• Your program should be able to handle any number that an unsigned int can hold.

Sample Output: (run on October 12^th)

Incredible Edible Date Predictor!
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Enter the number of days in the future you want to predict the date for:2
The Date you have asked for is:
Oct 14

Incredible Edible Date Predictor!
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Enter the number of days in the future you want to predict the date for:1393
The Date you have asked for is:
Aug 6