Thread: checking if digit only in C

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    checking if digit only in C

    Hello, I must make a program, were I have to enter numbers after which my program will calculate exam mark according to these marks. In the start i wrote program in C language, but I didn't know how to write functions which would work, I had some ideas ( if and while ) but they didn't work, then I found a code sample in C++ and wrote program in this language and it worked, but then I found out, that it is not allowed to write program with C++ language according to my task. I would be very grateful if someone could help me to rewrite my code in C language:
    Code:
    # include <stdio.h>
    # include <conio.h>
    # include <ctype.h>
    # include <iostream> 
    
    float A,formula1,formula2;
    using namespace std;
    int main()
    {
    int Ae;
    cout << "Enter exam mark: ";
    cin >> Ae; 
    while (!cin.good())
    {
    cin.clear ();
    cin.ignore (256, '\n');
    cout << "Enter a number: ";
    cin >> Ae;
    };
    cout << "Data is correct: " << Ae << endl;
    int Alab;
    cout << "Enter laboratory work mark: ";
    cin >> Alab;
    while (!cin.good())
    {
    cin.clear ();
    cin.ignore (256, '\n');
    cout << "Enter a number: ";
    cin >> Alab;
    };
    cout << "Data is correct: " << Alab << endl;
    int Aref;
    cout << "Enter report mark: ";
    cin >> Aref;
    while (!cin.good())
    {
    cin.clear ();
    cin.ignore (256, '\n');
    cout << "Enter a number: ";
    cin >> Aref;
    };
    cout << "Data is correct: " << Aref << endl;
    formula1=((0.6*Ae)+(0.3*Alab)+(0.1*Aref));
    formula2=(Ae+(0.3*Alab)+(0.1*Aref));
    if (Ae >= 4) A=formula1; else A=formula2;
    printf("%2.1f - Exam mark\n",A);
    getche();
    return 0;
    }
    And I also forgot to define that there can be entered numbers only from 0 to 10 ( because they are marks)

    If someone could give me a little help, I would be very grateful

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    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int main()
    {
        fprintf(stdout, "Do your own homework\n");
        return 0;
    }
    Right 98% of the time, and don't care about the other 3%.

    If I seem grumpy or unhelpful in reply to you, or tell you you need to demonstrate more effort before you can expect help, it is likely you deserve it. Suck it up, Buttercup, and read this, this, and this before posting again.

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    Grumpy *has* to be grumpy, or they'll take that name away from him.

    Anybody who posts code using code tags, on their very first post, gets some props from me.

    Code:
    # include <stdio.h>
    # include <ctype.h>
    //you may not have conio.h, and I doubt this program needs it.
    # include <conio.h>  
    
    float A,formula1,formula2;
    int main() {
      int Ae;     //cout << "Enter exam mark: ";
      printf("\nEnter exam mark: ");
      scanf("%d", &Ae);
      (void) getchar();      //cin >> Ae; 
    
      while (Ae > 0)   {     //cin.clear (); //   cin.ignore (256, '\n');
        printf("\nEnter a number: ");    //cout << "Enter a number: ";
        scanf("%d", &Ae);  //cin >> Ae;
        (void) getchar();
      };
                                //cout << "Data is correct: " << Ae << endl;
      printf("\nData is correct: %d\n", Ae);
      int Alab;
                             //cout << "Enter laboratory work mark: ";
      printf("Enter laboratory work mark: ");
      scanf("%d", &Alab);   //cin >> Alab;
      (void) getchar();
                                   //while (!cin.good()) {
      while (Alab > 0) {     //negative numbers quit the loop
                                  //cin.clear (); //cin.ignore (256, '\n');
        printf("\nEnter a number [<0 to quit] :");    //cout << "Enter a number: ";
        scanf("%d", &Alab);  //cin >> Alab;
          (void) getchar();
      };
      cout << "Data is correct: " << Alab << endl;
      int Aref;
      cout << "Enter report mark: ";
      cin >> Aref;
      while (!cin.good())  {
        cin.clear ();
        cin.ignore (256, '\n');
        cout << "Enter a number: ";
        cin >> Aref;
      };
      cout << "Data is correct: " << Aref << endl;
      formula1=((0.6*Ae)+(0.3*Alab)+(0.1*Aref));
      formula2=(Ae+(0.3*Alab)+(0.1*Aref));
      if (Ae >= 4) A=formula1; else A=formula2;
      
      printf("%2.1f - Exam mark\n",A);
      getche();
      return 0;
    }
    That will give you a start. The forumula doesn't look good, however. 0.6*Ae, when Ae is an integer, looks wrong - might need to change it to a float or a double.

    And Welcome to the forum, Nuubik!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adak View Post
    Grumpy *has* to be grumpy, or they'll take that name away from him.
    I don't have to be grumpy. It just works out that way.

    But come on! The original poster is openly doing a homework exercise, and has either found a code sample (presumably from someone who did the course previously who was marked down for mixing C and C++) or has hacked together some bits of code without real thought about how the bits interact.

    Incidentally, depending on age of C compiler, your approach won't work either.
    Right 98% of the time, and don't care about the other 3%.

    If I seem grumpy or unhelpful in reply to you, or tell you you need to demonstrate more effort before you can expect help, it is likely you deserve it. Suck it up, Buttercup, and read this, this, and this before posting again.

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    I tend to agree with grumpy here, I mean although he did use code tags an offence of copying homework from another source is just as bad from a functional point of view even if you admit to it.
    1. Get rid of gets(). Never ever ever use it again. Replace it with fgets() and use that instead.
    2. Get rid of void main and replace it with int main(void) and return 0 at the end of the function.
    3. Get rid of conio.h and other antiquated DOS crap headers.
    4. Don't cast the return value of malloc, even if you always always always make sure that stdlib.h is included.

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    No "approach" intended. Just a nudge in the right direction from C++ to C. I certainly did not try to compile it.

    It might offend our sensitivities,(life does that), but we learn by doing. He's not out getting ........-faced, and he'll learn a bit. If he could spend the time and learn the way we'd like him to, he wouldn't be posting stuff like that, admittedly.

    He did say he wrote a program for it, in C, but it didn't work, so then he found this one in C++. After it's fully modified for C, he will have learned a few things, anyway.
    Last edited by Adak; 10-02-2010 at 06:39 AM.

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    Since itīs cross-posted, thereīs no point 2 forums wasting time on it.
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