Lem-in

Summary: This project is meant to make you code an ant farm manager.

Usage

make then ./lem-in < mapfile or ./lem-in -c < mapfile if you want to print the number of steps

Arguments

Your program will receive the data describing the ant farm from the standard output in the following format:

number_of_ants
rooms, which are defined by: name coord_x coord_y
links, which are defined by: name1-name2
All of it is broken by comments, which start with #

Example of map

# Number of ants
15
# Begining of rooms
##start
1 23 3
2 16 7
# comment
3 16 3
4 16 5
5 9 3
6 1 5
7 4 8
##end
0 9 5
# Begining of links
0-4
0-6
1-3
4-3
5-2
3-5
# another comment
4-2
2-1
7-6
7-2
7-4
6-5
# another comment

Program output

You must to display your results on the standard output in the following format:

number_of_ants  |
the_rooms       | i.e reprinting the map
the_links       |
Lx-y Lz-w Lr-o ...

where x, z, r represents the ants’ numbers (going from 1 to number_of_ants) and y, w, o represents the rooms’ names.

Here is an example output

3
##start
0 1 0
##end
1 5 0
2 9 0
3 13 0
0-2
2-3
3-1

L1-2
L1-3 L2-2
L1-1 L2-3 L3-2
L2-1 L3-3
L3-1

Make it more visual:

Usage:

bash sdl_installer_os.sh to install the graphic library SDL if you are on macos make then ./lemin < mapfile | ./display

Example: