Genealogical Research
Time Limit: 1 Second Memory Limit: 32768 KB
These days, everyone seems to be exploring their ancestry. This effort is supported by family history software, now marketed by a number of vendors. Unfortunately this software is expensive and runs only on the McDoze X operating system. You are to write an open-source equivalent.
Input
Your program accepts a series of commands, one per line. The commands are described by the following syntax:
command ::= birth
::= death
::= ancestors
::= descendants
::= QUIT
birth ::= BIRTH child: date: mother: father
death ::= DEATH person: date
ancestors ::= ANCESTORS person
descendants ::= DESCENDANTS person
child ::= name
mother ::= name
father ::= name
person ::= name
date ::= name
name ::= <
Spaces in the input are ignored except where they appear within name. The BIRTH
and DEATH commands record the birth and death of an individual. You may assume
that each individual has a unique name. The ANCESTORS and DESCENDANTS commands
are queries: they print a family tree or a reverse family tree for the named
person, using the BIRTH and DEATH information entered by previous commands.
The QUIT command indicates the end of input.
Output
The BIRTH, DEATH, and QUIT commands have no output. For each ANCESTORS (DESCENDANTS) command, print the following information:
1. Print a line containing "ANCESTORS of" ("DESCENDANTS of")
followed by the person's name
2. Indented 2 spaces from the previous line, print the person's first parent
(child) in alphabetical order, followed by the parent's (child's) birth date,
followed by a space, followed by a hyphen, and, if the parent (child) has died,
another space and the date of death. If there is no birth record for the parent
(child), print the name alone.
3. Print the ancestry (descendant) information for the parent (child), indented
another 2 spaces, using these same steps (i.e. steps 2-4).
4. Repeat steps 2-4 for the remaining parent (children). Indentation should
be the same as for the previous parent (child).
Leave an empty line between the output sequences for successive commands.
You may assume that no input line exceeds 100 characters, and that there are
not more than 250 lines of input. You may assume that DEATH, ANCESTORS, and
DESCENDANTS commands refer to a name for which a BIRTH command has previously
been given. QUIT appears only as the last line of input.
Sample Input
BIRTH John Doe : January 7, 1599 : Jane Doe : Adam Doe BIRTH Mary Worth : May 18, 1666 : Jane Doe : Adam Doe BIRTH Casper Ghost : Jan 2, 1959 : Mary Worth : John Doe DEATH Mary Worth : Jan 3, 1959 ANCESTORS Casper Ghost DESCENDANTS John Doe QUIT
Sample Output
ANCESTORS of Casper Ghost John Doe January 7, 1599 - Adam Doe Jane Doe Mary Worth May 18, 1666 - Jan 3, 1959 Adam Doe Jane Doe DESCENDANTS of John Doe Casper Ghost Jan 2, 1959 -Submit
Source: University of Waterloo Local Contest 2003.09.20