Thread: Parsing strings

Originally Posted by Ashl7

Write a Complete program for the following specification:
The SerialNumber class takes a serial number in
the form of LLLLLLLLLLLL-DDDDDDDDD-LLLLLLLLL where each L is a letter
and each D is a digit. The serial number has three groups
of characters, separated by hyphens.
Note: This time any number of letters followed by - followed by any number of digit followed by – followed by any number of letters.
Example:
String serial1= "GHFFFFFTRJ-8978888885-AQTTTTWR"; // Valid
String serial2 = "GHT7J-8975-AQWR"; // Invalid
String serial3 = "GHTRJ-8J75-AQWR"; // Invalid
String serial4 = "GHTRJ-8975-AQ2R"; // Invalid

Are you sure you are supposed to write the program in C? It looks like C++ for me.

Originally Posted by Ashl7

it seems like to ask for a random serial number, and then wants us to enter a serial number, and then see if that's right or wrong....
anyone could give me a hint to start it out?! I'm not sure how to generate a random serial number...(is it possible to have a random character generator?)...and then how do I use "-" in between the entries?!

I don't think you should write a random serial number generator. I think you should write a validator function, checking if the provided serial number is valid or not.

Anyways, how would you generate a random serial number on paper? If you can describe each step you do, you have your basic algorithm :-)

Bye, Andreas

Post your attempt. We're not going to do your homework for you, but we may nudge in the right direction

oh shoot I didn't know my post came here LOL
ok I'll show you guys my power

OK , I guess my mind is going to explode from all the datum I got from you guys in the last 24 hours...seriously I wrote 4 programs in one day and 2 of them were really REALLY hard!! I need to get some sleep, it's 3:45 Am in LA....
I guess I'm going to dream about waking up in the morning and seeing the above assignment is done by you guys...hmmm sweet dreams...

C programming @ Smc 2morrow @ 1 PM ?

omg!! I hope you're not Abbas!!! LOL

Haha I'm not, but I will see you there

no no no no this is WRONG!!!
how did u do so far?!

I'm trying to figure out the largest & count its occurrences assignment

And the serial validator :P

that's it?! lol
SEE GUYS...NOW THERE ARE TWO PEOPLE HERE WHO NEED YOUR HELP FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT...
well, good luck...and good night

Do you need help with someone?

well I don't know, it depends who I'm asking help from lol
I should be fine...I guess I'll get 15% out of 20% at least
I only have problem with this problem, the serial number...and the education assistant(a little bit)...
check out my post here, see if u can find out what my problem is
developing an easy CAI programm in C
later

Originally Posted by Ashl7

OK , I guess my mind is going to explode from all the datum I got from you guys in the last 24 hours...seriously I wrote 4 programs in one day and 2 of them were really REALLY hard!! I need to get some sleep, it's 3:45 Am in LA....
I guess I'm going to dream about waking up in the morning and seeing the above assignment is done by you guys...hmmm sweet dreams...

Keep dreaming. We don't do your assignments for you. Bad enough you're being spoonfed in your other thread.