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data in files and arrays

Find the highest score in the results file

After the judges rate the competitors, the scores are stored in a file called
results.txt. There is one line in the file for each competitor’s score. You
need to write a program that reads through each of these lines, picks out the
score, and then works out the highest score in the Surf-A-Thon.

Score
Official Judging Dude 7.81
8.65

9.12
8.45

Brad
8.05
the results.txt file.
7.21 Results are stored in
8.31

It sounds simple enough, except for one small detail. You’ve written programs
to read data from the Web, and read data that’s been typed in at the keyboard,
but you haven’t yet written any code that reads data stored in a file.

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