Mail merge program. You will write two equivalent programs: one in Python 3 and one in C#. They will be invoked on ceclnx01 as shown here:
> python3 hw4.py a.tsv a.tmp
> mcs hw4.cs
> mono hw4.exe a.tsv a.tmp
where hw4.exe is your compiled C# code. The first command line argument is a tab separated file of records a.tsv (tsv stands for tab separated values). The second one is a form letter with embedded codes a.tmp. Sample .tsv and .tmp files are provided in the archive TestFiles.zip in Canvas -> Files -> Homework Assignments -> HW4 (Note: matching files have matching names: b.tsv and b.tmp; c.tsv and c.tmp, etc.).
Here are the contents of the a.tsv file:
| NAME ID | COURSE DUE SUBMITTED MINUTESLATE | ||
| Steve Smith smiths | 465 2/5/2016 23:59:00 2/6/2016 0:45:00 46 | ||
| Mark Watson watsonm | 465 2/5/2016 23:59:00 2/6/2016 3:47:00 228 | ||
| Kenny Briddle briddlekBill Haygood haygoodb (continuation) | 465 2/5/2016 23:59:00 ontime565 2/5/2016 23:59:00 ontime | 00 | |
| LATEDEDUCTION P1 | P1COMMENTS P2 P2COMMENTS | SUBTOTAL | TOTAL |
| 1 35 | Excellent work 65 Nice | 100 | 99 |
| 5 30 | Test case 10 provides 65 Well done incorrect output; otherwise, nicely done. | 95 | 90 |
| 0 150 0 | Many test cases missing. 55 Missing the report.Not attempted 65 Nice | 7065 | 70 65 |
Here are the contents of the a.tmp file:
Name: <<NAME>> (<<COURSE>>)
ID: <<ID>>
Total: <<TOTAL>>/100 Subtotal: <<SUBTOTAL>> Total deductions: <<LATEDEDUCTION>>
Time due: <<DUE>>
Submitted: <<SUBMITTED>>
Late minutes: <<MINUTESLATE>>
Late deduction: <<LATEDEDUCTION>>
Problem 1: <<P1>>/35
<<P1COMMENTS>>
Problem 2: <<P2>>/65
<<P2COMMENTS>>
When run, your program should produce one output file for each record in the file. The file should be named using the ID column. In this case, the four files should be smiths.txt, watsonm.txt, etc. Here is one of the output files:
Name: Steve Smith (465)
ID: smiths
Total: 99/100 Subtotal: 100 Total deductions: 1
Time due: 2/5/2016 23:59:00
Submitted: 2/6/2016 0:45:00
Late minutes: 46
Late deduction: 1
Problem 1: 35/35
Excellent work
Problem 2: 65/65
Nice
Notes:
- All columns in the tsv file will have a unique name. One of the tsv columns will have the name ID.
- Any string inside the tmp file having the form <<letters+>> is considered a tag.
- The field values in the tsv file may contain << and >>. These values are to be treated literally and not to be substituted as a tag.
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