Question

Write a programmer defined function that compares the ASCII sum of two strings. To compute the ASCII sum, you need to compute the ASCII value of each character of the string and sum them up. You will thus need to calculate two sums, one for each string. Then, return true if the first string has a larger ASCII sum compared to the second string, otherwise return false. In your main function, prompt the user to enter two strings with a suitable message and provide the strings to the function during function call. The user may enter multiple words for either string. Then, use the Boolean data returned by the function to inform which string has the higher ASCII sum.

Answer 1

Answer:

The program in Python is as follows:

def ASCIIsum(str1,str2):

   asciisum1 = 0;    asciisum2 = 0

   for chr in str1:

       asciisum1 += (ord(chr) - 96)

   for chr in str2:

       asciisum2 += (ord(chr) - 96)

   if asciisum1 > asciisum2:

       return True

   else:

       return False

str1 = input("Enter first string: ")

str2 = input("Enter second string: ")

if ASCIIsum(str1,str2) == True:

   print(str1,"has a higher ASCII value")

else:

   print(str2,"has a higher ASCII value")

Explanation:

This defines the function

def ASCIIsum(str1,str2):

This initializes the ascii sum of both strings to 0

   asciisum1 = 0;    asciisum2 = 0

This iterates through the characters of str1 and add up the ascii values of each character

   for chr in str1:

       asciisum1 += (ord(chr) - 96)

This iterates through the characters of str2 and add up the ascii values of each character

   for chr in str2:

       asciisum2 += (ord(chr) - 96)

This returns true if the first string has a greater ascii value

   if asciisum1 > asciisum2:

       return True

This returns false if the second string has a greater ascii value

   else:

       return False

The main begins here

This gets input for first string

str1 = input("Enter first string: ")

This gets input for second string

str2 = input("Enter second string: ")

If the returned value is True

if ASCIIsum(str1,str2) == True:

Then str1 has a greater ascii value

   print(str1,"has a higher ASCII value")

If otherwise

else:

Then str2 has a greater ascii value

   print(str2,"has a higher ASCII value")