CS 132 – Project 4: Movie Database

Due: Monday, November 28^th, 2005 Start of Class

For this assignment you will be creating a database for a user to keep track of his or her movies. Each record will be part of a linked list, and you will need to support various operations on the database.

The record will look like:

Title:	String (max 200)
Director:	String (max 100)
Year:	Int
Stars:	String (max 1000, comma separated list)
Format: (DVD, VHS, etc.)	Int (enumeration?)
Rating:	String (max 5)
Running Time:	Int

You will present the user with a menu when the program is run. The menu will allow various operations:

1. Enter a record manually
2. Load a database from a file
3. Save a database to a file
4. Display all movies, sorted by Title
5. Display all movies in a particular format
6. Display all movies from a certain year
7. Find a record

Entering a record manually is self-explanatory.

Loading and saving a database involves writing each record to a file, one line per field, with a blank line between records, and being able to load a similarly formatted file.

The display functions should be self-explanatory as well.

For finding a record, you should support a simple textual search on title, stars, or director. Support partial matches. Look into the function strstr() to help you.

Get started early so you can have Thanksgiving break off!