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A-LevelComputer ScienceSubroutinesMay/June 2021Paper 2 Q68 Marks

A procedure CountVowels () will: • be called with a string containing alphanumeric characters as its parameter • count and output the number of occurrences of each vowel (a, e, i, o, u) in the string • count and output the number of occurrences of the other alphabetic characters (as a single total). The string may contain both upper and lower case characters. Each count value will be stored in a unique element of a global 1D array CharCount of type INTEGER. The array will contain six elements. Write pseudocode for the procedure CountVowels().

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This structured question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Computer Science (9618) May/June 2021 examination, Paper 2 Variant 2. It tests the topic of Subroutines and is worth 8 marks.

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