1-reading-writing-files

[dearshrewdwit]

Click here for the project directory.

Your task is to write a program to read data from a file and find out how many people end up in the same position they started from. Your program should create a new file called answer.txt with the result - where you have 1 line, for example: count: 3

Here is the input:

# input.txt
W
WE
S
NSWE
NSN
N
NSSSSNNN
NSEEEEWWNWNWSWEN

Each line represents a person moving in compass directions (N, E, S, W).
Eg: NSN represents a person moving

one step N
one step S
one step N

Example

# input.txt
W => false
WE => true

With the above input, the total count would be (1) person ending up in the same position, and the resulting file answer.txt has the line count: 1

EXTENSION

You discover that each line represents different movements of the same person. Your task is to find out if the person end up back in the same place?

Example

# input.txt
W
WE
NES

Expected outcome: a file answer.txt that has 1 line with the word true.

[dearshrewdwit]

This is my implementation that we workshopped today: #2