Homework 7 Pointer-based linked list

HW-7-D 

Write a program that uses a pointer-based linked
list to manage a spell checker translator.

1. Your program must read in each word of the input file
(hw7data.txt) and put each word into a separate link
in the linked list (you *MUST* create a pointer-based
linked list for this). In each case (each word), you need
to create a link that can hold that word precisely (i.e. the
payload section must be sized specifically for each word).
In other words, your structure for the linked list *CANNOT*
look like this:

struct node {
char word[n];
struct node *next;
}

It *MUST* look like this:

struct node {
char *word;
struct node *next;
}

The difference is that in the required form, there is no
space allocated for the text. You will have to use malloc/calloc
to allocate that space (see hints below).

2. You need to create a second word list that contains the
�correct� word for each word in the hw7data.txt file. By
�correct,� I mean a word that when it replaces the matching
word in the hw7data.txt file the poem make sense. We will call
this the codex file.

3. Your program must read in each word of the codex file
(hw7codex.txt) and put each word into a separate link
in the linked list (you *MUST* create a pointer-based
linked list for this). In each case (each word), you need
to create a link that can hold that word precisely (i.e. the
payload section must be sized specifically for each word).
In other words, the same rules apply for this linked list as
in the first linked-list. At this point you MUST have 2 linked
lists.

4. You must traverse the hw7data linked list replacing
each word with the translated word from the hw7codex
linked list. In some cases the existing word will be removed
(e.g. "plane" "lee" may become "plainly" so "lee" must be
removed from the linked list). In other cases the codex word
may be longer or shorter than the original word, in these
cases the original link must be deleted and replaced with a
new link. This guarantees that the memory consumption will
be optimal/minimal. You can do this with every replaced word
if you like. You **CANNOT** simply create a third linked list,
you are only allowed to have 2 linked lists, in total.

5. You must traverse the hw7data linked list displaying the
corrected poem. The display MUST have the same exact format
as the hw7data.txt file.

Your program must read the data from a file (hw7data.txt)
that has the following content:

Eye have a spelling chequer,
It came with my Pea Sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue,
Miss Steaks I can knot sea.
Eye strike the quays and type a whirred,
And weight four it two say,
Weather eye am write oar wrong,
It tells me straight aweigh.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your shore real glad two no.
Its vary polished in its weigh.
My chequer tolled me sew.
A chequer is a bless thing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right all stiles of righting,
And aides me when eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen,
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The chequer pours over every word,
Two cheque sum spelling rule.

EXTRA CREDIT:
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1. (5 points) Include the use of a TAIL pointer that tracks the
end of the linked list.

2. (5 points) Create separate functions that insert, search,
replace/update, and freenodes from the linked list. As the 2 linked
lists may have different payloads (i.e. define by different structs),
you may want to create separate functions that insert into for each and
for freeing.

3. (5 points) Pass by reference the head and tail pointers to the
functions created in #2.

HINTS:
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Passing pointers by reference:
http://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-programming/109893-passing-pointers-reference.html
(see response by QuantumPete)

How to dynamically set the size of a string in a link:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1802221/how-to-set-a-struct-member-of-type-string
(see response by Amarghosh).


REQUIREMENTS:
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1. Your program must run in Streibel 115/109 or on shell.aero.und.edu.

2. Your full name must appear as a comment at the beginning of your
program.

3. Your source code must be named hw7-yourname.c