Thread: You are my last chance

Ok guys, I know I'm really annoying posting questions every day, but this forum is my last chance to finish my university tasks. I have only 1 more day.

I need your help with a binary file.

The question is quite similar to one of my last posts.

I need to read a binary file like this:

cBoard#10
Bruce the boss#12
Darth Vader FTW#16
Albert#17
William Wallace#21

Where the text before the # is the name of the player and the number after the # is the number of dice rolls that the player needed to win.

As you can see, all of they are ordered from the one with less dice rolls to the one with most dice rolls. And there are only 5 players, the TOP 5 players of all time.

After play the game, I have to compare the dice rolls from the winner with all that 5 players. If the winner needed less dice rolls than one of the other players, the program has to write the ranking again with the new order.


I'm using this code to read one line like "Darth Vader FTW#16":

Code:

fread(strLinea, sizeof(char), 100, f);

And this one to write it on the file:

Code:

strcpy(strAux,jugador[i].strNom);itoa(jugador[i].nTiradestotals,strTirades,2);
strcat(strAux,"#");
strcat(strAux, strTirades);
fwrite(strAux, sizeof(char), 100, f);

jugador[i].strNom is the name of the winner.
jugador[i].nTiradestotals is the number of dice rolls needed to win.


But I think I'm not doing it good, it doesn't work.
And I don't know how to read-compare-upload.

If you, guys, can help me, I will be eternally grateful.

Originally Posted by Salem

itoa - C++ Reference
So I'm wondering why you're converting an int in base 2.

My fault, it's not base 2 haha

Is strTirades large enough to hold 33/65 characters (depending on the size of your ints)?

strTirades[100] is enough, I think.

> fread(strLinea, sizeof(char), 100, f);
> fwrite(strAux, sizeof(char), 100, f);
These two things are fine in themselves, they match one another.

However, having done the fread() into strAux, you need to be mindful of this.
strcpy(strAux,jugador[i].strNom);
strcat(strAux,"#");
strcat(strAux, strTirades);

To get the name, you have to find the # character, and take all the characters before it.
To get the number, you take everything after the # up to the next \0 (or 100 characters), then pass it to say atoi(), using the same base you used with itoa()

strcpy(strAux,jugador[i].strNom);
strcat(strAux,"#");
strcat(strAux, strTirades);

This is to write the winner. I want to write a string, so I'm following the next steps:

-I copy the name to the string.
-Add the '#'
-Add the dice rolls.

So I will have "Name#Dice" and ready to print.

Another question that I have is, at the first game, there's no FILE with the winners info (obviusly, there's no winner yet), so what happens if the file is opened and there's nothing in it?