Thread: having trouble splitting a main file into 2 classes.

Originally Posted by lorenzo86

... I manage to code it everything into the main file. but ...

post it

Check this out first.
That will make it easier for people to help you.

:/ not quite...
Preveiew your post before you submit! Honestly do you expect people to read that code, try to decide what it's overall function is supposed to be, and help with it? Most people will not even read it. Make sure it is indented, don't be too scared to toss in a comment or two, and maybe explain your goal a little. (what the program is needed for)
You asked for class suggestions, just explaining what you are attempting to do may provide suggestions for that without any code.

Originally Posted by lorenzo86

parser and matchpattern

Think of what data you are working with, then think of ways they are related, if any.
Think of what you DO to/with the data, your methods/functions, and find relations between the data and the methods. You should be able to sum up most of the work into the two classes and anything remaining will be outside of them. (perhaps a third class or in main...¿)

It looks like you just don't quite grasp object oriented programming, I hope I am wrong as I do not mean anything offensive by it. But looking at the code and your questions, I think you should google c++ class examples. Get an understanding of what a class provides in general, and it will be clear how to use classes in your code.

I have purposely dodged providing that direct relation to your work because it seems to me that is the actual point of the assignment. To show your understanding of classes. Give it a try yourself first. Don't worry about getting it all right the first time. Consider your data. You have so many global variables above main. In reality all or at least most of them would not be global (I did not actually look them over one by one). Rather than a global variable classes can be accessed globally and contain variables. From inside a class you can set them public, private, protected. So look for a relation to the type of data you are working on, what data types you need, what data will need work done on it, what will happen with the result. These methods will be another part of the class which holds the data. You must be able to find some relations on your own, given that you have made it this far.

Give it a shot and post what you come up with. You will get it figured out! Plus once you start working on it and figure some things out, you will find other things just seem to fall into place.