Description
Write a program to search words in a matrix (imagine it is a 2-dimenional array). This program
will find the words listed in command line and highlight the words with color. On Canvas,
there are several matrices for testing. For example, inside 0505matrix file, you will read:
Here, the first 5 is the number of rows, the second 5 is the number of columns. If the C++
program name is words and we want to search tcnj and go in this matrix. We can type the
following command
%words tcnj go < 0505matrix
As you can see, tcnj and go are red colored.
If you want to search this project is hard inside file 1520matrix. You can type:
%words this project is hard < 1520matrix
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Similarly, to search you enjoy this project inside 2020matrix, you can type:
%words you enjoy this project < 2020matrix
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How to print a letter with color: Whenever we print out some text in terminal, the color of
the text itself is called foreground color, the color of the text background is called background
color. In the file “colormod.h”, we defined a Setting class, which allows you to change the
foreground color and background color. In this project, you just need to change the foreground
color.
Please note once you change either background or foreground color, the following text will use
the same setting until you reset it or change the colors again. It is a good idea that you change
the color before printing the text, then change the color back to default value after the text print
is done.
An example C++ program to output Hello World in Red is listed in the following. In this
example, “red” object sets color to red. “def” object sets color to default. In this project, please
do NOT modify colormod.h, just use it.
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Code:
#include "colormod.h" // namespace Color
#include
using namespace std;
int main() {
Color::Setting red(Color::FG_RED);
Color::Setting def(Color::FG_DEFAULT);
cout << "This ->” << red << "Hello, world!" << def << "<- is red." << endl;
}
Before starting write a code: Think about how a human being can solve this problem. How to
search the all possibilities? Do not rush to write code before figuring out the whole idea.
Usually, try to figure out the solution of some simplified the case. For this project, you can first
think about the situation that it has one search word, and the program searches from one
position with one direction. After figuring out the specific situation, try to solve it in a more
general situation.
How to search ONE word in the matrix: Your program should scan the whole matrix. If the
program is visiting [i][j] element now, it will check whether word match the strings on [i][j]
element’s left side, right side, upward, downward, and four diagonal directions. If the program
finds a match, it will mark a separating matrix to keep the record. This separating matrix can be
a Boolean array or char array. Please keep in mind that the input matrix may have multiple
matches for one word. Your result must show all the matches.
Should I use two-dimensional array or something else? In the lecture we will compare 2D
array with other choices. In general, we strongly suggest you use vector in this project. Vector
will make coding way much easier than 2D array. The following is an example how to define
two-dimensional vector, which is a replacement of traditional two-dimensional array.
void init(vector< vector
for (int i = 0; i < row; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < col; j++)
twoD[i][j] = -1;
}
}
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How to search multiple words in the matrix: Once your program can search one word, you
can use a for loop to go over each word typed at the command line. Note all the words you type
will be saved to argv[]. You can use argc to check how many words typed. The words you
typed are stored in array, from argv[1] to argv[argc-1]. The following code shows how to use
argc and argv[]. Please note argv is an array, the elements of the array are char pointers. The
argv[0] is the program name itself. For example, if you type
./a.out a b c
The output will be
./a.out
a
b
c
#include
using namespace std;
int main(int arg, char *argv[]){
for(int i = 0; i < arg; i++)
cout << argv[i] << endl;
}
How to read the matrix into memory: Just like what we do in lab1, you should use cin and
nested for loops to read the data.
How many functions do I need? It is up to you. It depends on how you will divide functions
among methods. But that does not mean you can/should just define one function, that is main().
If you do so, believe me, it is hard to do debugging. I prefer you define one function that will
check whether the word match the string starting from [i][j] at one direction (up, down, left,
vector< vector
searchMatrix.resize(x);
for (int i=0; i
