SmartCare Surgery is a private clinic which is operating in the Sultanate of Oman since 2015. The company have three types of users, Doctors, Nurses, and patients. The clinic needs a program to validate the user’s identifiers

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  1. SmartCare Surgery is a private clinic which is operating in the Sultanate of Oman since 2015. The company have three types of users, Doctors, Nurses, and patients. The clinic needs a program to validate the user’s identifiers.

Valid users’ identifiers are ten (10) characters long, starting with two (2) uppercase letters.

Here are some examples of valid users’ identifiers.

DR8361541

NR4356787

PT2345678

 

Write an algorithm that will:

 

  • take a potential user’s identifier from the user.
  • if the input is “X”, allow the user to quit the program.
  • if the potential user identifier is too short, then tell the user.
  • if the first two characters do not follow the rules, then tell the user.
  • allow the user to keep entering user’s identifiers.
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