The input file presidents.txt contains records in the form of text lines, one per U.S. president. Each president record contains:
• The starting year of the president’s term (4 digits)
• The ending year of the president’s term (4 digits)
• The president’s first name
• The president’s middle initials with periods (not all presidents have middle initials)
• The president’s last name
One or more blanks separate the years and the first and last names and middle initials. There
are no blanks inside the first and last names. If a president has more than one initial, they are
written together with periods but no blanks.
You must assume that the presidents are not sorted. Your program should not know in advance how many president records there are. The last president record is followed by a sentinel
record that has -1 in place of the starting year.
Write a program that will:
• Read the input file and store each president’s years, first name, middle initials (if any),
and last name in a Pascal record. Store all the records in an array of records that’s large
enough to hold 20 records.
• Sort the array into ascending order by starting year, and print the presidents in sorted
order.
• Following the dummy record in the presidents.txt file, there is a list of search years
terminated by -1. For each search year, search the array for the matching presidents and
print the search year and the matching presidents’ names. If there is no match, print “no
match”.

presidents.txt:

2009 2017 Barack Obama
1961 1963 John Kennedy
1981 1989 Ronald Reagan
1993 2001 Bill Clinton
1989 1993 George H.W. Bush
1977 1981 Jimmy Carter
2017 2021 Donald Trump
1963 1969 Lyndon Johnson
1969 1974 Richard Nixon
1974 1977 Gerald Ford
2001 2009 George W. Bush
-1
1975 1963 1989 2019 2001 2030 2016 -1

Required Output:
• Presidents, in ascending order by first year in office.
• Search years, and corresponding presidents (or No Match).
Text input hints:
• If ch is a character variable, then read(ch) will read the next character from the standard
input.
• If n is an integer variable, then read(n) will read the next integer value from the
standard input.
• A call to readln will skip the rest of the current input line. Then the next call to read will
read starting on the next input line.
• Boolean functions eoln and eof without parameters test whether the standard input is
at the end of the current line or at the end of file, respectively. (If youʹre typing input
data into a Windows command window, a line containing only control-Z is the end-of-
file marker. On Linux and the Mac, itʹs control-D.)

 

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