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reportScore

Language/Type: Java file processing Scanner
Author: Marty Stepp (on 2020/04/16)

Write a static method called reportScore that takes as a parameter a Scanner containing information about a student's performance and that prints a report for that student. Students are given gold stars for tasks they solved particularly well and minuses for tasks where they performed poorly. The information for each student is presented as a series of count/type pairs where each count is a positive integer and each type is either "*" or "-". These count/type pairs are followed by the student's name which is guaranteed to be a single word composed entirely of alphabetic characters. Consider this report: 

3 * 2 - 1 * Erica

It indicates that Erica got 3 stars followed by 2 minuses followed by 1 star. The overall score is computed by giving 1 plus point for each star and one minus point for each minus. The method produces exactly one line of output reporting this score and the total number of tasks. The table below includes several examples. 

        Scanner contents                       Output produced
        ----------------------------------     ------------------
        3 * 2 - 1 * Erica                      Erica got 2 of 6
        2 - 1 * 2 - 1 - 1 * 2 - Fred           Fred got -5 of 9
        1 * 1 - 3 * 1 - 2 - Sylvia             Sylvia got 0 of 8
        Julia                                  Julia got 0 of 0

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