Infra Internship Code Challenge - 22nd May 2018

Due: 23rd 9:00am May or Earlier

There are three interdependent tasks in this challenge, complete ALL. The submission instructions are specified at the bottom of the challenge page.

Task 1

This program will be referred to as "logger"

Write a program that prints exactly 1000 lines of text to standard output. Each line of text is a date in the form dd/MM/YYYY, where:

• valid ranges for days are 00-30
• valid ranges for months are 1-12
• valid ranges for years are 2017-2018 The lines of text are to be generated randomly - that is, there should be a reasonably arbitrary distribution of logs from all possible dates.

Task 2

This program will be referred to as "viewer"

Write a program that reads lines of test from standard input. The program should process each line and:

• Print "Malformed input" and exit, if the line is not in the form dd/MM/YYYY
• Count lines from each month that appears in a line. The program should not count months that do not appear in any line.
• Print lines from 0-14th of 2018. Finally, the program should print each logged month with the percentage of lines of text from that month in the form:
  Month: XX%
  Where "Month" refers to the name of that month.
  For example:
  May: 35%
  

Task 3

Launch the logger program and pipe its output to the viewer program.

How to submit

1. Check out the format for submitting your code here

2. Make sure when creating a branch to use your correct phone Number, as this is what we will use to get back to you.

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