Arrays and data manipulation

cattle_go_moo

I'm working on a program that deals with annual rainfall. I have two 1D arrays, one with the rainfall data and another with the months of the year. I need to find the average yearly rainfall, driest and wettest month, as well as driest and wettest 3 month periods. All this needs to be outputted to a file. I was trying to use a comparision operation but the only one I could come up with was way to long. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Indiana

tikoo

: I'm working on a program that deals with annual rainfall. I have two 1D arrays, one with the rainfall data and another with the months of the year. I need to find the average yearly rainfall, driest and wettest month, as well as driest and wettest 3 month periods. All this needs to be outputted to a file. I was trying to use a comparision operation but the only one I could come up with was way to long. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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: Indiana
:
Not much scope for increasing speed here ,i guess.
But calculating the avg rainfall, finding the driest and wettest months shouldnt be tpoo difficult.
For calculating the 3 month periods,just start from the beggining of the array and add the next three, come back to the second index of the array, then add the next three.
I suppose you'll require two for loops, one for keeping a track of the starting month , and next loop for the three month addition.
'outer for starting month and inner for 3 cosecutive months.

-Shehjar

Briball

If you are careful, you can keep the indexes equal for both array, but I think there may be an easier answer here: classes (or structs).

class CMonth
{
public:
char[64] strMonth;
int nRain;
};

Now you need one array (using a template-based array). Don't know if you want to do this or not, but classes are the way to go if you can.

DI_HALT

: I'm working on a program that deals with annual rainfall. I have two 1D arrays, one with the rainfall data and another with the months of the year. I need to find the average yearly rainfall, driest and wettest month, as well as driest and wettest 3 month periods. All this needs to be outputted to a file. I was trying to use a comparision operation but the only one I could come up with was way to long. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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: Indiana
:

what do you think about this:

double rainfall [12]; // months rainfall data

double avr = rainfall [0]; // average yearly rainfall

double dMonthIdx = 0; // index of driest month
double wMonthIdx = 0; // index of wettest month

double d3MonthIdx = 0; // start index of driest 3 months period
double w3MonthIdx = 0; // start index of wettest 3 months period

// temporary vars
double d3Temp = w3Temp = m3Temp = rainfall [0] + rainfall [1] + rainfall [2];

{

for (int i = 1; i < 12; i++){
avr += rainfall [i];

if (rainfall [i] > rainfall [dMonthIdx]){
dMonthIdx = i;
}
else
if (rainfall [i] < rainfall [wMonthIdx]){
wMonthIdx = i;
}

m3Temp += ((-rainfall [i - 1]) + rainfall [(i + 2) % 12]);

if (m3Temp > d3Temp){
d3MonthIdx = i;
d3Temp = m3Temp;
}
else
if (m3Temp < w3Temp){
w3MonthIdx = i;
w3Temp = m3Temp;
}
}

avr = avr / 12;
}

???