C Programming:

Write a program called perimeter.c that calculates the perimeter of a polygon.

1. Name your executable perimeter.out

2. The points of the polygon will be stored in a file and this file will be passed on

the command line arguments

3. The file itself will be a binary file containing integers

1. The first integer in the file is the number of points contained in the file

2. The remaining integers are the points, with the first integer being the x

coordinate and the second integer being the y coordinate.

3. There is an edge between each adjacent point and between the first point

and the last point

4. Each file contains at least 3 points.

4. The perimeter of a polygon is the sum of the lengths of all of its edges

5. Use a double to store your perimeter and report the perimeter to the nearest 2

decimal points.

6. MUST store your points in a struct.

7. As an aside the example tests do not form actual polygons but assume that they

do.

Example. Assume that there is a file called example.txt. It will store the following

information but in binary form. This example just gives you a visualization of

the data.

3

287 422

283 -981

781 647

./perimeter example.txt

The perimeter is 3648.30