Thread: Can anyone please help me with my code?

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    Nope, it just keeps returning that it doesn't exist and -1. Which somewhat good, because we know that loop works. But I think something is happening between the two functions of initStruct and findDayCount. I'm still looking at it, can't seem to find it.

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    I notice that there is this:

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    strcpy(month[1].nameEng, "February");
    	strcpy(month[2].nameSpan, "Febrero");
    	month[1].numDays = monthLeng[1];
    	month[1].order = 2;
    Which would certainly screw up febrero.
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    OoO nice!

    you know in the function it says

    Code:
    struct month months[12];
    initStruct(months);
    /*.....
    *
    *
    */
    x = findDayCount(months, enter_month, enter_day);
    could it be that its saying that it is saying the months[12], would be back at january? Thats what I think it is, if so. how would i change the initStruct or fix this problem?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dlwlsdn View Post
    could it be that its saying that it is saying the months[12], would be back at january?
    No, it's the same as any other array, eg, foo[10] has ten elements, 0-9. There is no months[12], and i<12 so that never happens.
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    oh, okay. So where is the problem. I'm still looking for it haha. Could it be the way I'm calling my findDayCount function is wrong?

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    What exactly is it your trying to do?

    I just wrote a program that has the user input a month, either in English or Spanish, and then translates it and gives the number of days in that month.

    I could post it for reference?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mmcg View Post
    What exactly is it your trying to do?

    I just wrote a program that has the user input a month, either in English or Spanish, and then translates it and gives the number of days in that month.

    I could post it for reference?
    Yeah, something like that.
    The user will input a month and a day. So .i.e. February 28. Then the outcome should be that February 28 is the 59th day in the year.

    something like this.

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    First: Can I just point out that using a name that is a predefined type in C++ is not a great idea, so calling the variable something OTHER than "bool" is probably a good idea. "found" perhaps?

    Second:
    Code:
    	if(day > 31 || day < 1)
    	{
    		printf("There are no %d days in that month.\n", day);
    		fflush(stdout);
    	}
    	else if(day > 28 && (user == "february" || user == "febrero"))
    	{
    		printf("There are no %d in the month, %s. There is only 28.\n", day, user);
    		fflush(stdout);
    	}
    	else if(day > 30 && (user == "april" || user == "june" || user == "august" || user == "september" || user == "november"))
    	{
    		printf("There are no %d in the month, %s. There are only 30 days.", day, user);
    		fflush(stdout);
    	}
    	else if(day < 1)
    	{
    		printf("There are is no zero day. Did you type in the day correctly?\n");
    		fflush(stdout);
    	}
    wasn't the whole idea of having a struct months[12] that you don't have to mess about recognising names[which by the way, you are doing in the wrong way], but rather can use the months struct to find out if the day is outside the appropriate range.

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    Hmm. I understand. Still working on it. Not giving up haha . Thanks for helping and giving me advice

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    Okay.... I really can't find out whats wrong with my findDayCount function..
    Code:
    int findDayCount(struct month *m, char *user, int day){
    	int total=0;
    	int i;
    	int test=0;
    	// Checking to see if the enter_month is == to english or spanish
    	for(i = 0; i < 12; i++)
    	{
    		if(strcasecmp(user, m[i].nameEng) == 0)
    		{
    			strcpy(user, m[i].nameEng);
    			printf("You entered in the month, &#37;s, in english.\n", user);
    			fflush(stdout);
    			test = 1; break;
    		}
    		else if(strcasecmp(user, m[i].nameSpan) == 0)
    		{
    			strcpy(user, m[i].nameSpan);
    			printf("You enterd in the mont, %s, in spanish.\n", user);
    			fflush(stdout);
    			test = 1; break;
    		}
    		if(test == 0)
    		{
    			printf("That month cannot be found either in english or in spanish, please check your spelling.\n");
    			fflush(stdout);
    			return -1;
    		}
    	}
    	// Checking to see if the days are in the right range.
    	if(day > 31 || day < 1)
    	{
    		printf("There are no %d days in that month.\n", day);
    		fflush(stdout);
    	}
    	else if(day > 28 && ( (user == "february") || (user == "febrero") ) )
    	{
    		printf("There are no %d in the month, %s. There is only 28.\n", day, user);
    		fflush(stdout);
    	}
    	else if(day > 30 && ( (user == "april") || (user == "june") || (user == "august") || (user == "september") || (user == "november") ) )
    	{
    		printf("There are no %d in the month, %s. There are only 30 days.", day, user);
    		fflush(stdout);
    	}
    	else if(day < 1)
    	{
    		printf("There are is no zero day. Did you type in the day correctly?\n");
    		fflush(stdout);
    	}
    	total = m[i].numDays + day;
    	return(total);
    }
    it still tells me that I'm typing in the months wrong, except for january. Like january works fine.
    and the "total" comes out to be -1 or some weird number haha. RAWR~ lol

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    Put "if (test == 0) ..." outside of the for-loop!

    Also:
    Code:
    (user == "february")
    tests if the address of user is the same address as the constant string "february". That is (nearly) impossible, as one is a local variable, and the other is a constant string value.

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    matsp, you are a genius. How come I didn't see that before? I runs perfectly, except one thing... it didn't add the numbers correctly. I typed in february 28. And it printed out
    Code:
    What month: february
    What day: 28
    You entered in the month, February, in english.
    That day is the #28 in the entire year out 365 days.
    Obviously its not the #28 out of 365, it should be 59.

    my code for it is.
    Code:
    total = m[i].numDays + day;
    	return(total);
    I know its not the right way to do it. I can't seem to find a way to accumulate every month and not accumulate january if i type in january 1 or something. This part is the last part I'm stuck on.

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    One way to do it . . .

    Code:
    int monthnumber;
    int months[12] = {31, 28, . . .}; /* don't feel like typing the entire array */
    int day;
    for(i = 0; i < monthnumber; i ++) {
         day += months[i];
    }
    day += enteredday;
    That should do it. (Something like that, anyhow . . .)
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    Gahh, day should be initialized to zero. Otherwise you'll get some pretty strange results.
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    OoO interesting. Nice night owl.. month number being what the user wrote. So january would be 1, feb. = 2, etc.

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