The task is to define the class ‘RleCodec’ for run-length encoding.
About implementing the virtual function:
We have the base class ‘Codec’ as an interface. The member functions in ‘Codec’ are pure virtual functions. Therefore we need to implement those virtual functions in the derived class ‘RleCodec’. The functions ‘decode’, ‘show’, ‘is_encoded’ are already done. The only function you need to complete is ‘RleCodec::encode’ in ‘function.cpp’.
In ‘main.cpp’, we see two functions having an argument of type ‘Codec&’:
std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, Codec& data);
void encode_decode(Codec& data);
Since ‘RleCodec’ is a derived class of ‘Codec’, we may pass an object of
‘RleCodec’ to the above two functions by reference as if it is an object of ‘Codec’. Calling ‘data.show(os);’ will invoke the virtual function of the corresponding derived class.
About run-length encoding:
The rule of run-length encoding is simple: Count the number of consecutive repeated characters in a string, and replace the repeated characters by the count and a single instance of the character. For example, if the input string is ‘AAADDDDDDDBBGGGGGCEEEE’, its run-length encoding will be ‘QCAQGDQBBQEGQACQDE’, where QCA means that there are 3 A’s and 3 can be encoded as C (the third character in alphabet), QGD means that there are 7 D’s and 7 can be encoded as G (the 7 th character in alphabet), and QBB means we have 2 B’s and 2 can be encoded as B (the second character in alphabet) … etc. Note that every encoding segment starts with a Q.
If there are 27 A’s in a string, it is separated into two segments ‘QZAQAA’, which means the first segment ‘QZA’ represents 26 A’s, and the second segment ‘QAA’ represents 1 A.
In ‘function.h’, we add the class ‘DummyCodec’ as a sample of implementing a derived class of the base class ‘Codec’. You do not need to change anything in ‘function.h’. The only function you need to write for this problem is the function ‘RleCodec::encode’ in ‘function.cpp’.
Hint: std::stringstream could be useful in solving this problem. Please refer to ‘RleCodec::decode’ for how to use std::stringstream.
You only need to submit ‘function.cpp’. OJ will compile it with ‘main.cpp’ and ‘function.h’.
We have already provided partial function.cpp belowed.
Note that if you can't use "auto".
For codeblock, go to the codeblock menu Settings --> Compiler ... --> Compiler flags and check Have g++ follow the C++11 ISO C++ language standard [-std=c++11]
For command line compiler, use g++ myprog.cpp -std=c++11 -o myprog
main.cpp
function.h
function.cpp
A line contains of several characters .(n <= 100)
There are four lines.
The first and second lines are dummy encoding and decoding. You don't need to implement it.
The third and forth lines are RLE encoding and decoding.
Each line is followed by a new line character.