Readings:

The experiment focuses upon string handling.

Instructions:

As one of your first programming assignments at Mega Industries, you have been tasked with writing a C$++$ program to read a file of names and addresses which was extracted from an obsolete system and write it out to a comma separated file. Many of the fields need to be edited. A typical line in the old file would be:

john smith#$165980076$#$8148337965$#$3$rd & state st#erie#pa#$16506$

it needs to be reformatted to:

Smith, John,$165-98-0076,814-833-7965,3$rd & State St$,$ Erie, PA$,16506$

After consulting with a senior programmer, you have a list of required functions as follows: