How can I write a function (prefer in perl/php language) to return a
set of items based on following input arguements?

min. number of items to be generate (at least 1 item)
max. number of items to be generate (at least min. items)
average value of items (each item assigned a value from 1 to 5)

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Request for Question Clarification by answerguru-ga on 21 Nov 2006 16:57 PST

Does pseudocode work for you on this one? I'm not big on perl or php personally.

answerguru-ga

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Clarification of Question by xtrashock-ga on 23 Nov 2006 12:14 PST

yes, pseudocode should be fine. please note where should i return the
error. thanks. :)

Hello xtrashock,

Thank you for your question.

I am going to write you the pseudocode for this:

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1 Accept input from command line or other input device

2 parse command line and find minimum item amount and maximum item amount.

3 if minimum item < 1 then display error "minimum items must be more than 0

4 if maximum < minimum or maximum <1 then display message "your
maximum level is incorrect, it must be greater than minimum and also
greater than 0.

5 if all arguments are correct in a for loop structured as
for x = min to max do print generated item

6 after each item is generated add the value to a counter that is
keeping a sum of the total values,

7 after each item has been generated calculate average using the following funtion
average = value total / max items

8 display average

9 end program run

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This should answer your question. If you need any additional
clarification, let me know and I'll be glad to assist you.

--keystroke-ga