Books database Learn programming Java

Lesson:

Arrays, Structures and Strings


Exercise:

Books database


Objetive:

Create a small database, which will be used to store data about books. For a certain book, we want to keep the following information:

Title
Author
The program must be able to store 1000 books, and the user will be allowed to:

Add data for one book
Display all the entered books (just title and author, in the same line)
Search for the book(s) with a certain title
Delete a book at a known position (for example, book number 6)
Exit the program

Hint: to delete an item in an array, you must move backwards every item which was placed after it, and the decrease the counter.


Code:

import java.util.*;
public class Main
{
	private final static class book
	{
		public String title;
		public String author;

		public book clone()
		{
			book varCopy = new book();

			varCopy.title = this.title;
			varCopy.author = this.author;

			return varCopy;
		}
	}

	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		int capacity = 1000;
		book [] books = new book [capacity];
		boolean repeat = true;
		String option;
		int amount = 0;
		String search;
		boolean found;

		do
		{
			System.out.println();
			System.out.println("Books database");
			System.out.println();
			System.out.println("1- Add a new book");
			System.out.println("2- Display all books");
			System.out.println("3- Exact search for any book");
			System.out.println("4- Partial search");
			System.out.println("5- Delete a book");
			System.out.println("0- Exit");
			System.out.print("Enter an option: ");
			option = new Scanner(System.in).nextLine();

			switch (option)
			{
				case "1": // Add a new book
					if (amount < capacity)
					{
						System.out.printf("Enter data for book %1$s" + "\r\n",amount + 1);
						System.out.print("Enter the name of the book: ");
						books[amount].title = new Scanner(System.in).nextLine();
						System.out.print("Enter the author: ");
						books[amount].author = new Scanner(System.in).nextLine();
						amount++;
						System.out.println();
					}
					else
					{
						System.out.println("Database full");
					}
						break;


				case "2": // Display all books
					if (amount == 0)
					{

					else
					{
						for (int i = 0;i < amount;i++)
						{
						System.out.printf("%1$s: Title = %2$s,  Author = %3$s" + "\r\n", i + 1, books[i].title, books[i].author);
						}
						System.out.println();
					}
					}
					break;
				case "3": // Exact search
					System.out.println("Enter the name of the book");
					search = new Scanner(System.in).nextLine();
					found = false;

					for (int i = 0;i < amount;i++)
					{
						if (books[i].title.equals(search))
						{
						System.out.printf("Book %1$s found" + "\r\n",books[i].title);
						found = true;
						}
					}

					if (!found)
					{
					System.out.println("Not found!");
					}
					System.out.println();
					break;
				case "4": // Partial search
					System.out.println("Enter the search string");
					search = new Scanner(System.in).nextLine();
					found = false;

					for (int i = 0;i < amount;i++)
					{
					if (books[i].title.toUpperCase().contains(search.toUpperCase()) books[i].author.toUpperCase().contains(search.toUpperCase()))
					{
						System.out.printf("%1$s found in %2$s" + "\r\n", search, books[i].title);
						found = true;
					}
					}

					System.out.println();

					if (!found)
					{
						System.out.println("Not found!");
					}
						break;
				case "5": // Delete
					if (amount == 0)
					{
						System.out.println("No data to delete");
					}
					else
					{
						System.out.printf("Enter the number of book to delete (1 to %1$s)" + "\r\n", amount);
						int posToDelete = Integer.parseInt(new Scanner(System.in).nextLine()) - 1;
						for (int i = posToDelete; i < amount - 1; i++)
						{
						books[i] = books[i + 1].clone();
						}
						amount--;
					}
					break;
				case "0": // End
					repeat = false;
					break;
					default:
					System.out.println();
					System.out.println("Wrong option. Please re-enter\n");
					break;
			}
		} while (repeat);
	}
}

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