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    Counting program

    Hey guys, I am in the process of a program that counts integers I can do this by looking for the int keywork and then incrementing a variable although if an integers are implemented as:

    int j,k,l;

    I am not sure how to count this as 3 ints, I know I will need some form of loop that reads until the next comma and ends at the semicolon but I have no idea what kind of loop would be of use or how to implement it.

    Any advice would be great,

    Thank you.

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    Ok, what I would do: I would first read in the whole line, after that I would make sure we are dealing 1 or more int-variables. Now after that I would count the number of commas, as you may notice, the number of variables equals the number of commas+1. For that you only need 1 loop that goes something like this (pseudocode)
    Code:
    Read line
    if line is creating variables   // Is it a line creating variables??
      // We want 1 because we know we have at least 1 variable
      variableCount = 1    
      for i = offsetToFirstVarName; i<sizeOfLine || line[i] == ';'; i++
        if line[i] == ','
          variableCount++
    That's how i would do it.
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    Start off by reading whitespace seperated words until you come across "int". Then, call getline(file,buffer,';'); or the equivalent to read into a string buffer from your file up to the next ';' character. In the example you gave above, this would result in buffer containing " j,k,l". Next, initialize a stringstream with that buffer. Then, use a while loop calling getline from your stringstream buffer into some temp/garbage string with ',' as the character delimiter. The body of the while loop should just a call to increment the counter.

    There can be complications however, consider what might occur if your file contains the following:
    Code:
    cout << "Hello int a,b,c" << endl;
    Or...
    Code:
    #define myvar int
    float foo;
    myvar j,k,l;
    Or...
    Code:
    int foo(int bar1,int bar2)
    {
        float bar4;
        int bar3;
        ...
    }
    Your program can quickly become much more complex if you need to account for all these (and more) situations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shakti
    Ok, what I would do: I would first read in the whole line, after that I would make sure we are dealing 1 or more int-variables. Now after that I would count the number of commas, as you may notice, the number of variables equals the number of commas+1. For that you only need 1 loop that goes something like this (pseudocode)
    Code:
    Read line
    if line is creating variables   // Is it a line creating variables??
      // We want 1 because we know we have at least 1 variable
      variableCount = 1    
      for i = offsetToFirstVarName; i<sizeOfLine || line[i] == ';'; i++
        if line[i] == ','
          variableCount++
    That's how i would do it.
    Hi so would it be something like this?

    Code:
    char array [200];
    ifstream file;
    
    file.open(filel); 
    
    	if (file.is_open()) 
    
    	{
                 while (file.getline( array, sizeof(array) ))
    	          {
                           	if ( strstr ( array, "int" ) != 0 )
    			{
    				fint++;
                              for (i =0, i <sizeof(array) || line [i]==';' ; i++ // not sure what line[] is
    
                                if (line[i]==',')
                                     fint++
                               }
                 }
    This doesn't work but am I getting close?
    Last edited by 182; 02-17-2006 at 07:55 PM.

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    Hey guys Im still really having problems with this code could someone point out where I have went wrong? Thanks.

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    You're not supposed to bump threads.

    Code:
    for (i =0, i <sizeof(array) || line [i]==';' ; i++ // not sure what line[] is
    ->
    Code:
    for (i =0; i <sizeof(array) || line [i]==';' ; i++) // not sure what line[] is
    Does that help?
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    I now have the following code but its still not working, any suggestions?
    Code:
    char array [200];
    ifstream file;
    
    file.open(filel); 
    
    	if (file.is_open()) 
    
    	{
                 while (file.getline( array, sizeof(array) ))
    	          {
                           	if ( strstr ( array, "int" ) != 0 )
    			{
    				fint++;
                              for (i =0; i <sizeof(array)  ; i++)
    
                                if (array[i]==',')
                                     fint++
    				if (array[i]==';')
                                     break;
                               }
                 }
    Last edited by 182; 02-18-2006 at 08:38 PM.

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