@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ You need to find the quickest way to get `n` ants across a colony (composed of r
- At the beginning of the game, all the ants are in the room `##start`. The goal is to bring them to the room `##end` with as few moves as possible.
- At the beginning of the game, all the ants are in the room `##start`. The goal is to bring them to the room `##end` with as few moves as possible.
- The shortest path is not necessarily the simplest.
- The shortest path is not necessarily the simplest.
- Some colonies will have many rooms and many links, but no path between `##start` and `##end`.
- Some colonies will have many rooms and many links, but no path between `##start` and `##end`.
- Some will have rooms that link to themselves, sending your path-search spinning in circles, some will have too many/too few ants, no `##start` or `##end`, duplicated rooms, links to unknown rooms, rooms with invalid coordinates and a variety of other invalid or poorly-formatted input. In this cases the program will return an error message `ERROR: invalid data format`.
- Some will have rooms that link to themselves, sending your path-search spinning in circles, some will have too many/too few ants, no `##start` or `##end`, duplicated rooms, links to unknown rooms, rooms with invalid coordinates and a variety of other invalid or poorly-formatted input. In this cases the program will return an error message `ERROR: invalid data format`. If you want, you can elaborate the error message by being more specific (example: `ERROR: invalid data format, invalid number of Ants` and `ERROR: invalid data format, no start room found`).
You must display your results on the standard output in the following format :
You must display your results on the standard output in the following format :
##### Try running the program with example06.txt and with 100 ants.
##### Try running the program with example06.txt and with 100 ants.
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###### +Is it possible to see the ants moving?
###### +Is it possible to see the ants moving?
###### +Is the error output more specific? (example: `"ERROR: invalid data format, invalid number of Ants"` or `"ERROR: invalid data format, no start room found"`)