Chapter 9, Problem 1PP

WEATHER DATA

In the student sample progr4n files for this chapter, you will find a text file named weather.txt. The file contains weather data for the month of January 2018. Each line in the file contains the following four pieces of data for one day:

• Date
• Precipitation
• High temperature
• Low temperature

The data stored in each line is formatted in the following way:

Date;Precipitation;HighTemp;LoirTemp

Notice that the data items are separated by semicolons. The first line in the file looks like this:

1/1/2018; 0; 29; 10

The data stored in this line are:

• Date = 1/1/2018
• Precipitation = 0 inches
• High temperature = 29
• Low temperature = 10

Design a structure that has fields for the four pieces of data. In an application, read the file and store each day's data in an instance of the structure. The structure instances should be stored in a List.

Tip

Use the Split method that we discussed in Chapter 8 to tokenize each line into the four pieces of data.

The application should let the user select a date using a DateTimePicker control. The control should be configured so it only allows the user to select dates in January 2018. When the user selects a date, the application should display the weather data for that date.