This is for C++: Assume that you have a file that contains the weekly average prices for a gallon of gas in the United States for the past 3 years. The data is stored in the file as records. Each record contains the average price of a gallon of gas on a specific date. Each record contains the following fields:The month, stored as an integer. January = 1, February = 2, etc.The day of the month, stored as an integer.The year, stored as an integer.The average price of a gallon of gas on the specified date, stored as a real number, rounded to 3 decimal places.Design a program that reads the file and displays the lowest and highest gas prices, as well as the dates for those prices.

THE ALGORITHM:- 1. Open gasPrices.txt 2. Read each line of the file 3. Split each line into 4…

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Assume that you have a file that contains the weekly average prices for a gallon of gas in the United States for the past 3 years. The data is stored in the file as records. Each record contains the average price of a gallon of gas on a specific date. Each record contains the following fields:

The month, stored as an integer. January = 1, February = 2, etc.
The day of the month, stored as an integer.
The year, stored as an integer.
The average price of a gallon of gas on the specified date, stored as a real number, rounded to 3 decimal places.

Design a program that reads the file and displays the lowest and highest gas prices, as well as the dates for those prices.

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I need help figuring out what I did do wrong.
So where can I put TXT File SNIP?

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string line;
string T;
string min_month, min_date, min_year;
float min_price= 1000000;
while (getline (inFile, line))
{
stringstream X(line);
getline (X, T,' ');
string month= T;
getline (X, T, ' ');
string date= T;
1
getline (X, T, ');
string year T;
getline (X, T, ' ');
string price= T;
float f_price= std::stof (price);
if(f_price < min_price)
{
min_price= f_price;
min_month= month;
min_date= date;
min_year= year;
}
cout << "Lowest Price is "<< min_price<< " on date "<< min_year<< "-"<< min_month<< "-"<< min_date<< endl;
inFile.close();
}
void printMaximumPrice()
{
ifstream inFile;
infile.open("gasPrices.txt");
string line;
string T;
string max_month, max_date, max_year;
float max_price= 0;
while (getline (inFile, line))
{
stringstream X(line);
getline (X, T, ' ');
string month= T;
getline (X, T,
string date= T;
1
getline (X, T,
');
');
string year= T;
1
getline (X, T, ');
string price= T;

Lowest Price is le+06 on date --
Highest Price is 0 on date
Process exited after 0.06144 seconds with return value 0
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