need help with an ascii table =\

How's it going everyone? I got a project due in a few days and I was trying to work this but i can't figure out why its doing what it is. What i have to do i display the integer and its character values. this what i have in the driver:

{
while (RW<50)
{
cout << endl <<"Row:"<< RW;

RW ++;

while (CL<5)
{
cout << (char)AlphNum << "\t";

AlphNum ++;
CL ++;
}

CL=0;
}
}

but this is how it displays:


Row:0 ☺ ☻ ♥ ♦
Row:1♣ ♠
Row:2
♫ ♀
Row:3☼ ► ◄ ↕ ‼
Row:4¶ § ▬ ↨ ↑
Row:5↓ → ← ∟ ↔

the first if how its suppose to look then it goes downhill from there. row 1 and 2 are really messed up and the gap between the integer and the first char value in row 3, 4, & 5 are gone. i only showed you the first 6 but it looks like rows 3,4,&5 throughout the whole thing.

any help guys?

Certain ASCII values represents Newline, Tab, Backspace and so on, that's probably the problem.

yeah i realize this, but how do i fix what i have above? i don't see the problem?

Change what you initialized alphnum to.

You shouldn't be trying to print out the non-printable characters. Isn't there an isprint function that let's you know if a value is printable or not? You could use this function to simply display some default character if it is not a printable character otherwise it is a printable character and you just output it.

(char)AlphaNum

prints out the ASCII character that is number AlphaNum

If AlphaNum == 0, then (char)AlphaNum == '\0'

I believe '1' == (char)48 or somewhere close to that.

The 0-31 & 127 are nonprintable control characters. Such as 8 which is backspace, 13 which is enter, 27 which is the esc key and 127 which is delete. You can print them but that funky stuff is what you get. Do as the other guy suggested and if it is one of those characters than skip it or change it to print off what the character does instead of printing the character.

Actually I think the function is isgraph() in ctype.h..
You can view what characters are what @ www.asciitable.com

ok well i'm all new to this programming thing since this is my first class so i'm a dope.

Code:

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#include <iostream.h>

int RW=0, CL=0, AlphaNum=0;

void main(void)
{

    cout << "Columns  1  2  3  4  5" << endl;

    while (RW<255)
    {
        cout <<"Row #" << RW << ": ";

        RW ++;

        while (CL<5)
        {
          if (AlphaNum == 0 || AlphaNum == 7 || AlphaNum == 8 || AlphaNum == 9 || AlphaNum == 13)
              cout << "(" << AlphaNum << ") ";
          else if (AlphaNum != 10)
              cout << "("<< char(AlphaNum) << ") ";
          else
              cout << "(\\n) ";

        AlphaNum ++;
        CL ++;
        }
               
        cout << endl;
               
        CL=0;
    }

}

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now it all prints good until row 53, 104, 105, 155, 156, 207, 208.
now i've come to realize that its when it reaches the char value of 7 is when things start to go wacky. i also realize that when it gets to the higher rows AlphaNum is no longer 7 or 8 or 10 or etc.. like it was at the beginning. so i belive this is where the problem comes from. i just don't know how to fix it. can anyone help?:(

After looking at your code again I think i found the problem,

Code:

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while (RW<255)
    {
        cout <<"Row #" << RW << ": ";

---

you are increasing the RW by 1 each time while AlphaNum is increasing by 5 thus causing the problem. instead use AlphaNum as the flag.

Code:

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while (AlphaNum<255)
    {
        cout <<"Row #" << AlphaNum/5+1 << ": ";

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Hope that helps