Posts by WaltP

Would you care to explain the problem?
Explain == good description with plenty of details
Explain != vague description with no useful information

Nope, don't see a thing. You might want to get to know the debugger.

Yes, that's what I meant, since it was wrong.

And since your description of the problem is vague, I have no other idea. Describe in detail and post you current formatted code and we'll try again.

Look carefully at your IF statements. Are your comparison operators correct?

Also, format your code. you'll need to if you want to keep posting because if we can't follow your code, we can't help.

Of course it's possible. How can you keep track of the receipt number?

Why are you starting a new thread? Did the other one get answered?

Have you ever heard of wine? That should do trick to run windows exe in linux :)

Did I misunderstand his question?

The executable files in these systems are different. They follow the conventions of the OS. That is why they are not interchangable.

#1) Use better variables: PswdIn, Pswd, Name, NameIn would be much better.

#2) Display the values before the IF statements to make sure they are the same.

Also try formatting your code. With code this large, your inconsistent formatting makes the program almost impossible to follow.

Care to supply some details? Or are we supposed to guess?

... being in the UK, the trains where I am are late so often, that if you miss it it's your own fault :D

Then it seems that if the trains are late so often, the entertainment value of Musical Platforms would be welcome. Especially if accompanied by dancers...

Would you care to explain what makes you think it's not working? Or should we guess?

Gee. You just aren't into progress, are you? :icon_twisted:

The highlighted part below is where the function located...Is there any problem with the input?

I don't know. Does it work?

:icon_rolleyes:

If you don't know C, you can't. Isn't that obvious?

Search for a C tutorial and start learning..

do
        {
            condition = fgets(save,30,reading);
            printf("\n%s",save);
        }while(condition != NULL);

When you read the last part of the file, condition is not NULL.

It doesn't become NULL until you try to read after you've reached the end. Now you have an error. But you output the last stuff read again. Then the loop exits.

You need to figure out how to exit when you get the error, not after.

Do you know C?

Details, details, details. Care to give us some?

No, since you didn't bother to tell us anything. The code does exactly what you told it to do, so it's working.

Convert that pseudo (VB) code into C code.

Of course.

Create an array of your structure.
Open the file.
Read 3 lines into fname, lname, salary for person 1 (index 0)
Read the next 3 lines into fname, lname, salary for person 2 (index 1)
etc.

Good first post! Good title, Code with tags, mildly useful description. All in all, a great first effort.

Unfortunately, you didn't post the entire error message. Also didn't mention what line the error is on. I don't see any lines that would have that error, either. Please add a few more details and we're in business.

If you seriously want to report a misbehaving ad, post in the DaniWeb Community Feedback forum. If you're just complaining, I'm with you, man!

Look at the MsgBoxStyle.xxx value from the parameters and show the buttons specified.

don't do it with a stack you are typing too much...
use recursion very powerful and easy to understand.

Just because you learned recursion recently and it looks kool, it is rarely an acceptable alternative to a loop. Way too many resources are used and you can crash your computer.

What serial number? How is it formatted? How does the subroutine get it?

Hi,
it opens the file by a native method after loading it...

SHOW US THE F'ING CODE! How many times do we have to ask?!?!?

Nice details of the problem. I understand exactly what and where based on you extensive explanation.

Answer:
Maybe you coded it wrong. But I'm not searching through 262 lines of code for the one that might be wrong. Maybe you could help by giving us details? Line numbers? What actually happens?

No, you cannot use fread . The proper answer to gerard4143's question was "text", althought the proper question should have been "Is the file a binary or text file?"

Without knowing what actually happened using fget (whatever that is) we can't really tell what you did wrong.

Maybe you should try to explain the entire problem you are having since we aren't at your computer watching over your shoulder.

Details == understanding.
Vague phrases == guessing (and usually wrong, too)

kdcorp87, use the preview button once in a while....

i have been told to use a do while loop instead of a goto statment,

That is an excellent suggestion. Although in some cases a while loop would work, too.

but when i run this program it goes through every loop
i understand that even if it did work properly it would be a infinate loop, so next question is how do i exit the do while loop?

Um, yeah...? Code goes from statement to statement. If you have loop after loop after loop, the code executes each loop. Why are you surprised at that?

To break out of a loop, change the value the loop is using as an exit condition to make the while fail -- a comparison yielding false .

Use in-code documentation.
Pay closer attention to what you are doing.
Think before you type.
Remember your program's structure.
Take notes.

Take your pick.

Actually, pick them all. And heavy on think. That's what the brain does best.

No. That's your job. When I was a beginner I had to modify my own code.

Posting two threads on the same topic is not allowed. Please reread the Member Rules.

Rather than outputting true/false in the loop, set a flag to true before the loop. If any values are not in order, set the flag to false. When the loop is over, output the result.

How do you open a file now?

But I am not able to understand that when I try to read from the file when the get pointer is at the last byte (or somwhere there) of the file then why does it read the last data element entry full. I meant that when the get pointer has already traversed the last entry then why is it travelling back a few bytes to read that again. Please explain???
And sorry for the late reply...

We don't care how late your reply was? We weren't waiting for it, believe me. :icon_wink:

See this about your .eof() question. feof() is identical to .eof().

Thanks
I want this funcion to print "true" (just once, not for every element )if the array is in a ascending order

How does that post come close to explaining:

You need to tell us what you wanted, what the code is doing, and what the code should have done. Details. Examples.

I see one question answered. Two unanswered. No details. No examples.
You've fail to supply requested info, and you expect worthwhile help?

You watched the Mercury space shots live and were old enough to understand what was happening

Ouch....

Is there any way to make it so newbies and problem posters are blocked from posting until they either read/reread and sign off on rules page just like signing off on user agreement before continuing to install software.

When was the last time you actually read a user agreement? You can't actually force anyone to read the rules.

But if they need to sign off on them before posting as you suggest, at least we now have definite recourse to slap hands. They can't complain about being reprimanded.

That's not at all what I said. Reread. I said "display each character [of User and File input] before the IF statement?" That suggestion is simple, to the point, and does imply new variable(s).

Wouldn't a question to the folks that wrote the code yield better and faster answers? Just a thought...

And what did the user enter. Exactly.

Look at each of the characters in the user input and the file input. You may find they are not the same. Display each character before the IF statement.

there is no reason for:

Enter artist name: Grateful Dead
[B]Another artist? [/B](y,n): y
Enter artist name: Lucinda Williams
[B]Another artist? [/B](y,n): y
Enter artist name: Third Eye Blind
[B]Another artist? [/B](y,n): y
etc.

If the artist is not entered, assume that is the 'no'. All you need to do is check the number of characters entered.

What if the Queen is overthrone beforehand? Hmmm?

Is she a drinker? Maybe she'll be underthrone.

Bad formatting, non-standard code.

Basically a bad post.

void search(ofstream &outFile, ifstream &inFile, int ID)
{
	int id_num;
	string name;
	char userreply;
	char lookagain = 'Y';
	string inputname;
	

	while (!inFile.eof() && (lookagain == 'Y' || lookagain == 'y'))
	{
		inFile.seekg (0, ios::beg);
		inFile.getline(file);
		if ( ID == id_num)

What is the value of id_num?

And see this about .eof()

:icon_rolleyes:

Did the program give you correct output? If no, it's definitely wrong. If yes, it might be right.

If you are going 60 miles/hour, what is the miles/minute? What is the miles/second?

Can you answer these without a program? Just pen and paper?

If so, post the answers. If not, look up the equations and figure it out. This is the first step to programming the solution.

And what is spm? Seconds/minute? Seconds/mile? And when I said "tell us what the problem is" I meant start from teh top. What are you trying to do, what values did you expect, and what did you get. Details.

So output the proper number of spaces before the *s

You can obviously output the *s, just do the opposite for spaces.

Thanks for what? If you have a problem you need to explain what that is.