Programming Logic and Design, Introductory 7th Edition by Joyce Farrell

Exercise 21

The Martin Weight Loss Clinic maintains two patient files—one for male clients and one for female clients. Each record contains the name of a patient and current total weight loss in pounds. Each file is in descending weight loss order. Design the logic that merges the two files to produce one combined file in order by weight loss.

Step 1 of 9

Pseudo code:

The below is the pseudo code which merges two files to one file in the order of weight loss.

start

Declarations

InputFile maleClients

InputFile femaleClients

OutputFile mergedFile

String mName

num mWeight

String fName

num fWeight

String END_NAME=”ZZ”

String FILE_END=”N”

call()

while FILE_END<>”Y”

merge()

endWhile

endUp()

stop