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Hello everyone, I'm working on a project which I should read from a text file. Text file contains two lines of sequational numbers, something like this: [TEX] 4 5 2 1 10 8 3 4 6 1 [/TEX] In the program, I need to find out where exactly a new …

I am trying to write a "censor" program. here are the instructions: Write a program that reads a file of text and replaces each `target' word with its first letter followed by a string of asterisks that indicate its length. Have it read the list of target words from a …

EDIT: Apologies... user error strikes. Tis the way of the newb. Nothing to see here, move along. I have a dict with the following pairs: [code]object = {'v1': 1, 'e5': 6}[/code] If I set a variable using this data and print it: [code] var = object['v1'] print var [/code] I …

Wow, I am having huge problems passing values between functions and wrapping my head around pointers. For some reason when I tried to return values from functions they would not pass and when I tried putting pointers in the place, passing them kept giving me compiler errors. Now I have …

I am new to programming and after a month or so of googling, I have decided to learn Python. Is this a good time to learn the language or people will soon jump ship since JAVA is now open source? By open source software, I understand that the code developed …

I can't figure out why it is saying (Vehicle.java:174: cannot find symbol) but there is a symbol, what is going on? [code]import java.util.Scanner; public class Vehicle{ protected int hp; protected int mileage; protected int year; public String make; public String model; Vehicle(){ hp = 0; mileage = 0; year = …

Hello: I'm almost killing myself to figure out the problem with the attached code. It seems that passing a text array to a function is impossible. Anyone is so kind to help me, please.

Hi guyz, I''ve done a bank's savings account program in java but can't compile, I keep on gettin the errors. 1. overrides `java.lang.Object.toString` 2. This methode must return a result of type String. both of the errors are on the method public `String toString () {...` public class SavingsAccount { …

Hello all, I have been working with the playsound() function in Visual Studio 2005, and find myself coming up short in getting it to work. I have recieved many compile errors, and never successfully have gotten it to function. I am using VC++ console application, WITHOUT a precompiled header. My …

Hi, I need help with importing database into form. The problem that I am having is, when a user inputs their firstname into textbox1, it should search for their name in the database (MS Access) , if found, it should populate the information into each textbox such as lastname, address …

Hello All, I have been trying to convert a long long to a char buff and having problems. I have tried spintf, and some casting but still can not get the conversion right. Any help would be great! Steve

Hey there, I've got a script in another language and I've set a writer from the script to python. Now I'm trying to send data back the other way... ie python -> to my script. However I've got nothing to reference in python, and i'm clueless. Can anyone provide assistance? …

hi everyone...... am designing an interface for security purposes where a user is allowed to enter a password to gain access... i want when password is entered its ********** that appear on the text box instead of password secret itself so that if someone is looking at the screen he …

yeah, I'm just keeping this thread open because I have another wrinkle. In my code [code=python]def prompt_house(): global gold prompt_hou = raw_input('>') if prompt_hou == 'examine table': print '''There are a lot of car magazines here. You flip through them and find 5 gold.''' gold = gold+5 prompt_house() [/code] (or …

Hey people, I'm not sure what is wrong with this code and any help would be greatly appreciated: [CODE]Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim i As Integer = DGVShops.CurrentRow.Index Dim c As Integer = DGVShops.Item(0, i).Value ' gets value from selected rows first …

I have this data..but something error..my data is like this... Exam TExam 1 25 2 20 3 46 4 56 5 12 but it only appear like this 1: -853617 [code=C++] #include <iostream> // std::cout #include <fstream> #include <iomanip> #include <string> // std::string #include <vector> // std::vector<> #include <algorithm> //std::for …

i did save image to mysql by creating a field type longblob and saving it by converting the image into byte(). my problem is the image cannot be to big else it fails. can anybody help me in this. i can send the sample code if requieres. thanks

Hi I want to be able to find out the int (or float) value of a variable whoose name is in another string variable [QUOTE]int x = 10; String var = "x"; System.out.println(Integer.valueOf(var).intValue());[/QUOTE] I want 10 to be printed but all I get is : [QUOTE]Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: …

I need to make a method that receives the matrix values as a string as [code=c#]"[ 1/4 1/3 1/2 ; 2/3 1/5 2/5 ; 1/6 1/5 7/8 ] "[/code] and initializes the matrix ( ex. “[ 1/4 1/3 1/2 ; 2/3 1/5 2/5 ; 1/6 1/5 7/8 ] “) I …

I wonder, I have a CheckedListBox and on the properties you can choose "MultiColumn" and set this to True or False. What I wonder is if it is true that CheckedListBox can have for example 5 columns because when I set this to true you can´t see that any columns …

well, my assignment is to create a program that will compute a square root of a number without using the sqrt() function in the cmath lib. here is the direct assignment guideline. [url]http://community.tncc.edu/faculty/lewis/csc201/pdf/lab4b.pdf[/url] and my program is about 95% written out (minus the comments)... but it keeps getting stuck in …

Hi guys, i need help extracting e-mail id from the text file can anybody please tell me how can i extract e-mail id and store it in a vaiable using perl regex. (e-mail id is not always bound to end with .com) here is my text file: ****************************************** IQXpert 27(ID) …

HI, I have made a menu with two menu Items Colors Size. Colors will further have the submenu Items--> FillColor Exit FillColor will further have-->Red,Green,Blue Size --> Small , Large If i write the foll. code--> [B]Private Sub Form_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single) …

I currently have a program using keyboard input from the user, but am trying to replace keyboard input with onscreen buttons. Does anyone have any information on the best way to do this? I've pasted the code file involved with this (there are other files in the program). I'm not …

im building a telephone directory. and the code is given below. i am using file system to store the record which i get from the user. and then i should be able to do searching, deleting, sorting and other default telephone dir functions. so far i have been able to …

i want my program able to change cursor at runtime. give a hand pleasee.... thanks all...

Hey I'm building a application and using JTree to navigate between the functions. This is working but can't figure out how to set up the JTree to have different icons for each node. I can have one default icon that gets rendered to each node or set up an icon …

My Friend tell me to using GetSystemInfo api function to get a couple information : - Number of procesor - ProcessorType - Low memory address -> MinimumApplicationAddress - High memory address -> MaximumApplicationAddress but i didn't know how to use this function. anyone know how to do this??? please help …

Hello All : I tried to write a simple program in C++ for encrypt a word using a keyword and a key depending on an alphabet ,for example keyword:HELO Key : D I want to genrate the cipher alphabet by puts the positions of letters of the keyword(HELO) in the …

how i can get all drive in my computer? does anyone know how to get it?? Thanks.

I am filling a char array 2 bytes at a time. I want to now add an integer that can be up to 4 bytes. Is there an easy way to split this integer into 2, 2 byte chars? For example 2200 into 0x08 and 0x98? Thanks.

Hello Everyone , I am writing a code in which i search a char array and look at what is missing in the array i mean what letters are missing in the array. I worked out a small code but i seem to have some error in the answer though …

In vb.net no form is MDI,any form can ve made MDI by setting IsmdiContainer property to true. But in Vb we add the MDI Form. In Vb.net Form1_click dim obj as new form1 obj.show() obj.mdiparent =me But in VB,i write dim obj as new form1 obj.show obj. but there is …

Hi, I'm trying to make a makefile but after i enter the command make makefile it says nothing to be made in the makefile, can someone please help me? Nd.c depends on Pd.h Pd.c depends on Pd.h Md.c depends on md.h md.h depends on Rd.h # Makefile CC = gcc …

I've written a program to produce a random sentence. I'm having trouble converting the first letter of the first word into uppercase. Don't know where to go from here. Can anyone help? [CODE=cplusplus] #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <time.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <ctype.h> void firstword( char *article[5], char *sentence[6]); void …

hi, could some one help me to make a calculator connected to a DSP? This is for my real time systems project. the software used to complile is Code Composer Studio. DSP used in TI TMS320C6711. keypad is 4x4 Matrix X,Y type. I could not understand how to make the …

[code] Hello, In one of my C codes, I have written a function for logging into a files. When the size of the file exceeds 10 MB, I close that file and open a new file. But at run time my Code is crashing at times during file closing. This …

Basically im trying to design a dtd that represents a collection of movies Not sure why but when i try validate the dtd it says undetermined element declaration 'Movies' but i have declared it havnt i? could someone take a look at my code give me some pointers ? thanks …

Private Sub Command3_Click() Dim a, b As Integer Dim divide As Double a = 10 b = 3 divide = div(a, b) MsgBox (divide) End Sub Private Function div(a, b) div = a / b End Function Function return type by default is integer in C. & if we do …

I had a global variable that could be seen by all of my functions. I was getting too many functions in the same file, so I made functions.h and functions.cpp. I put the function definitions in functions.cpp and the declarations in functions.h. In main.cpp, I include functions.h. The problem is, …

I'm trying to create a function that will sort the contents of a file in alphabetical order. The problem I'm having is that the code doesn't seem to do anything. The only examples I could find have to do with arrays which I am not using but I tried to …

This for loop below sets 5 checkboxes in a checkedListBox. What I wonder is that when running the code below, 5 checkboxes is created and the checkboxes are "unchecked". What I am wondering is how it is possible to make these 5 created checkboxes "checked" and how it is possible …

This seems like a very simple process, but I cannot get the data out of the loop: I have a data file "slink.txt": [CODE]88 10112213 33332332 22011220 23110122 21231102 12222321 32131132 10023232[/CODE] I am trying to store the numbers in a 2 dimensional array: [CODE]f = open('slink.txt', 'r') rows = …

i wanna to get size of file. help me how to get this. anyone know how to do this. any help will be appreciated :)

Hi i have been making two programs: one that sends a file's filebuf made into a char*, and another that receives that and writes it to a file. They're like exe sending programs. I can send the char* and write it onto the console using cout.write(), but when I try …

[URL="http://corvettecraz92.pastebin.com/f59db1508"](new code)[/URL] so, my new error message is 'local variable 'gold' refferenced before assignment.' now what?

yeah, another one...but this time in python! yay, more errors! :) first off, [URL="http://corvettecraz92.pastebin.com/f65e1cd3c"]here's the code..[/URL] (based off of chris99's code...the only example i could find for a text adventure game!) Now, my problem is where it says [code=python] elif prompt_p == 'examine sign': print """Behold the mysterious grating! For …

I've been trying to get some .JPGs to show up in Tkinter but have had no luck so far. Up until now I was just using PhotoImage, which takes .GIFs, but it would be nice if I could expand and use other formats. Any ideas? Also, I know that wxPython …

I've been using Eclipse as my IDE for python programming, mostly because it's free. However, as far as I can tell, its debugger is not that great. All I ever get are notices of what line the error occurs on (and what the error type is) and, while this can …

how to play avi file using vb.net ?? preferable with full screen mode help me to do this.