Assignment Phone Book

PROGRAM PARTICULARS

Your program will mimic a phone book. You will be given a file. In the file is a set of names and phone numbers (an entry). There will be one item per line (field), 3 items per entry(record), you dont know how many records are in the file. You are guaranteed at least one record.

Your program will be menu driven.

Your task is to accept a last name, a first name or a phone number from the user and to read through the text file, looking for a match. If match(s) are found, display the information, and then redisplay the menu.

If the entry was not found display the appropriate not found message. All search results will be written to the screen. You are guaranteed that when you ask for input you will get the appropriate type not necessarily within range but the right type.

INPUT FILE FORMAT

The input file will contain records. There will be one field per line, all lines in the file end with a carriage return. Here is a sample input file for clarification:

Mason

Athena

509-359-4293

Rogers

Steve

509-359-6260

Nielsen

Eric

509-359-6907

Nielsen

Jade

509-359-2314

Karrier

Marco

509-359-6809 # This is not the entire file.

SAMPLE OUTPUT

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CSCD110 Introduction to Programming

My Contacts File Program

Please choose from the following options:

1. Look up contact by last name

2. Look up contact by first name

3. Look up contact by phone number

0. QUIT

Enter a choice: 1

Please enter the last name you would like to search for: nielsen

Eric

Nielsen

509-359-6907

Jade

Nielsen

509-359-2314

My Contacts File Program

Please choose from the following options:

1. Look up contact by last name

2. Look up contact by first name

3. Look up contact by phone number

0. QUIT

Enter a choice: 1

Please enter the last name you would like to search for: lemelin

No Entry Found.

My Contacts File Program

Please choose from the following options:

1. Look up contact by last name

2. Look up contact by first name

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CSCD110 Introduction to Programming

3. Look up contact by phone number

0. QUIT

Enter a choice: 2

First name lookup: eric

Eric

Nielsen

509-359-6907

My Contacts File Program

Please choose from the following options:

1. Look up contact by last name

2. Look up contact by first name

3. Look up contact by phone number

0. QUIT

Enter a choice: 0

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PROGRAM SPECIFICS

The official input file name for this program is entries.txt.

Extra Credit (5 points each)

Read the file only once and store the information in list. On subsequent searches, iterate through the (list) and search.

Define functions with Doc Strings.

Error Check on Menu input.

Exception Handling.