Dsa
Sorting
Hard
Custom Sorting for Inventory
You manage an inventory of items, each identified by a name and a quantity. Your goal is to sort the items primarily by quantity (in descending order) and then by name (in alphabetical order if quantities are equal). Please format the output as 'Name: Quantity'.
Input:
The first line contains an integer n (1 ≤ n ≤ 1000), the number of items. The next n lines each contain a string followed by an integer representing the item name and the quantity, separated by a space.
Output:
Print the sorted list of items.
Example:
Input:
4
Apple 20
Banana 10
Cherry 20
Date 5
Output:
Apple: 20
Cherry: 20
Banana: 10
Date: 5
Key concepts
sortingstringscustom_sort
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