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A-LevelComputer ScienceProgramming Paradigms and Program StructureOct/Nov 2023Paper 2 Q49 Marks

4 A global array is declared in pseudocode as follows: DECLARE Data : ARRAY[1:150] OF STRING A function TooMany() will: 1. take two parameters: • a string (the search string) • an integer (the maximum value) 2. count the number of strings in the array that exactly match the search string 3. return TRUE if the count is greater than the maximum value, otherwise will return FALSE

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About This A-Level Computer Science Question

Topic

This structured question tests Programming Paradigms and Program Structure in A-Level Computer Science (syllabus code 9618). It is worth 9 marks.

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This question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Computer Science Oct/Nov 2023 examination, Paper 2 Variant 1.

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