sorry for the late reply....
although your code didn't quite work.. it did direct me to the right way in solving my problem so thanks you my friend :).

problem solved.
added to your rep. :)

see attachment

Thank you for replying. let me explain with an example :)
let's say i have this table: (check attachment please)
i want to get a count for example like this :
CASE1:

OR CASE2:


in the first...

Hello,

please bear with me if this question is stupid.
I'm fairly new to this and i really need to know. is it possible to use "SELECT COUNT" to get the number of DIFFERENT values one column...

thanks
i checked the link dragon posted , but still if i output to more than one line , how do i return to the first line ?
the "\r" character would only take me to the beginning of the current...

what would the "\b" character do?

Hi,

is it possible to control the output so that one output would replace the one before it ?

let me explain, i made a countdown timer, the counting instance is printed out but normally i would...

well actually i am using it for password input

i would access the windows registry and get the username

i don't know if it will help but you could try this:


int seconds=time (NULL);
string characters;
char seconds1[128];
itoa(seconds,seconds1,10);
string...

does the std::noskipws make the >> operator ignore the rest of the whitespaces? because i dont want it to or i would have used getline instead.

i compiled it with dev-c++ and the resulting exe file worked on the other machine

HI,

if i have something like this

char string[16];
std::cin>>string;

and i type something and press "Enter" then std::cinwould terminate, how do i get it to terminate when my first key...

i compiled the same code with dev-c++ and the exe file worked without giving me that error, but i still need to find out why its not working when compiled in visual c++ 2005 express edition

when i take out the conio.h , it works without copying the manifest file but even when i had conio.h included , the manifest file didnt help

i copied a file with the extension "manifest" , but it didn't help , in my code , if i don't include "conio.h" , i stop getting the error , so the "conio" header file is causing this ?

indeed i was building in debug mode , i changed that and built in release mode but that didn't change anything and i still got the error

the other computer's OS is the same and i must use getch()

Hello everyone,

i have the following code

#include <iostream>
#include <conio.h>
using namespace std;

int main()
{

i see, let me will check it out

i have a question iamthewee,

why use if ( pos > -1 ) and not if ( pos != 0 ) ?

thanks iamthwee , your solution is not crappy at all its good , it does find the error line and that is exactly what i want it to do :)

thank you so much :)

ok check my post#36 , some character is added by system() to each line , the first line is supposed to be an empty line, but it contains that character, maybe if we strip that character out of each...

ok dragon change this statement if(strcmp(error,str)==0 || counter==24) to this if(strcmp(error,str)==0 && counter==24)

the reasen you got that output is because at least the counter condition was...

i did try it with the code before the last one i posted , it did not work

i am also using VC++ 2008 and it did not work for me , something strange i have noticed
here is a new code i used for the same file (or system() output)

char str[500];int i=0;...

im not good with reading hex, but checking the code i posted you can see that both line do match and still the strcmp() wont detect it

the txt file is created by this command system("ipconfig>output.txt");
and the string that i wanna look for and is called error is declared here char error[]="Windows IP Configuration";

so this...

check the parameters being compared in this statement If strcmp(error,str) == 0 !!!!
if the condition is true then str EQUALS error and therefore error is found NOT AN ERROR IS FOUND !!
read the...

thanks but i don't think you know what kind of a problem i have because your answer does not relate to it

ok here is something i have tried :


char str[500];
char error[]="Windows IP Configuration"; //error string to find
system("ipconfig>output.txt");
fstream file("output.txt",ios::in);
...

although they look identical in notepad , i believe like you said, a space or tab character is added somewhere on each line by the system() function.
i tried removing spaces from the line created by...

for what ? :?:

sorry my code was wrong
try this

string A;
int B;
B=atoi(A.c_str());

i think you use the atoi function for that

string a;
int b;
b=atoi(a);

hi dragon, sorry for the late reply

here's my code


char str[5000];
system("mycommand>output.exe");
char error[]="the error line to be checked";
fstream...

thanks dragon but i tried comparing the strings with a strcmp() function and it won't work

this is what happens, if the txt file was created by the running program this way...

int main()
{

char str[5000];
char errorline[]="grab this text";
system("command>output.txt");
fstream file_op("output.txt",ios::in);
while(!file_op.eof())
...

in that case can anyone point me to where there is a very detailed tutorial on how to use ifstream ?

i did look hard enough to find and use the getline() method , and i was able to read the whole txt file, but i didn't know where to go or what to do after that, how to lookup a sentence by searching...