Generating Tallies
We are going to create a script which displays tally or survey results in
tabular or graphical form. The first thing we need is a text file with
information stored like this:
<![CDATA[
Football 13
Baseball 23
Basketball 31
Golf 12
Tennis 11
]]>
Go ahead and populate it as you see fit (you can even change the topic if
you'd like). Enter five to ten items and a number for each (representing
votes for favorite sport or whatever).
Presenting Output
One form of output we could present to represent this information looks like
this:
<![CDATA[
SPORT TALLY
Football xxxxxxxxxxxxx (13)
Baseball xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (23)
Basketball xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (31)
Golf xxxxxxxxxxxx (12)
Tennis xxxxxxxxxx (11)
]]>
ASSIGNMENT:
Your job is to write scripts which opens the source file and produces a file
with content formatted as shown.