This Program is supposed to get a filename, title and description of a database and then store it to and appropriate filename.
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <string.h>
#include<ctime>
#define MAX_FILENAME 256
#define MAX_INIT_NAME 1024
#define MAX_DESC 1024
using namespace std;
class date {
public:
int DAY;
int MONTH; //Unused date class, may use it sometime soon
int YEAR;
};
typedef class date DATE;
class database {
public:
char DB_INIT_NAME[MAX_INIT_NAME];
char DB_FILENAME[MAX_FILENAME]; //Database Class
char DB_DESC[MAX_DESC];
long unsigned int DB_RT_N;
};
typedef class database DBASE ;
class recordtype {
public:
string RT_NAME;
string RT_DESC;
long unsigned int RT_GENERIC_TYPE;
int RT_N_R;
};
/*
Recordtype class, adds different record types of which properties the user could choose, for example the format i.e. employee's name etc, etc. Not used yet also.
*/
typedef class recordtype RT;
class record {
public:
DATE DATE_RECORDED;
string R_S_DATA;
DATE R_D_DATA; //Unused record class
long int R_I_DATA;
};
typedef class record R;
DBASE CreateDataBase(); //Database base creation function
DBASE init_database(DBASE);//Array initialiser
ofstream datafile;
string DB_INIT_SPACE, DB_DESC_SPACE, DB_FILENAME_SPACE; /* Strings that will be assigned " " 's based on size of size of corrisponding elements. */
int DB_FILENAME_END, DB_DESC_END, DB_INIT_NAME_END,i; /* Differernt global int variables */
int main()
{
DBASE emp = CreateDataBase();
for (i = 0;i < DB_INIT_NAME_END; i++)
{
DB_INIT_SPACE += " ";
}
for (i = 0; i < DB_DESC_END; i++)
{
DB_DESC_SPACE += " ";
}
for(i = 0; i < DB_FILENAME_END; i++)
{
DB_FILENAME_SPACE += " ";
}
datafile.open(emp.DB_FILENAME, ios::binary | ios::trunc);
datafile << "Database Filename" << DB_FILENAME_SPACE << "Database Title" <<DB_INIT_SPACE<<"Database Descrition" << DB_DESC_SPACE<<endl ;
datafile << emp.DB_FILENAME <<" "<<emp.DB_INIT_NAME <<" "<< emp.DB_DESC<<endl;
cout <<"\n\n" << emp.DB_INIT_NAME ;
cout <<"\n\n" << emp.DB_FILENAME <<"\n\n" ;
cout <<"\n\n" << emp.DB_DESC << "\n\n";
cin.get();
cin.get();
system("pause");
}
DBASE CreateDataBase(){
DBASE newdb ;
newdb = init_database(newdb);
cout << "What would you like the filename of the database to be?\nFileName: " ;
cin.getline(newdb.DB_FILENAME,MAX_FILENAME) ;
i;
for(i =0;i < MAX_FILENAME; i++){
if(newdb.DB_FILENAME[i] =='.' && newdb.DB_FILENAME[i+1]=='d' && newdb.DB_FILENAME[i+2]=='b')
{break;DB_FILENAME_END = i+3;}
else{
if (newdb.DB_FILENAME[i] == '\0')
{
newdb.DB_FILENAME[i]= '.';
newdb.DB_FILENAME[i+1]='d';
newdb.DB_FILENAME[i+2]='b';
DB_FILENAME_END = i+3;
break;
}
else{continue;}
}
}
for (i=0;i < MAX_DESC;i++;) /* This is where the errors are being pointed to, Compiler message: 117: expected `;' before ')' token and; 125: expected primary-expression before ')' token */
{
if (newdb.DB_DESC[i] == '\0'){
DB_DESC_END = i+3;
break;
}
else{continue;}
}
for (i=0;i < MAX_DESC;i++;) /* This has the same errors as above */
{
if (newdb.DB_INIT_NAME[i] == '\0'){
DB_INIT_NAME_END = i+3;
break;
}
else{continue;}
}
cout << "\n\nWhat would you like the title of the database to be?\nTitle: ";
cin.getline(newdb.DB_INIT_NAME,MAX_INIT_NAME) ;
cout << "\n\nWhat description would you attribute to " << newdb.DB_INIT_NAME << "?\nDescription: ";
cin.getline(newdb.DB_DESC,MAX_DESC);
return newdb;
}
DBASE init_database(DBASE db)
{
i = 0;
for (i=0;i<MAX_FILENAME;i++)
{
//cout << i <<" "<< db.DB_FILENAME << endl;
db.DB_FILENAME[i] = '\0';
}
for (i=0;i<MAX_DESC;i++){
db.DB_INIT_NAME[i]= '\0';
db.DB_DESC[i] ='\0';
}
return db;
}I'm not sure if this is trivial or not but I can't seem to find the pitfall,
Lines 124 and 132 contain the same two errors. I have attached the files for convenience.
