I broke C++!

what does this error mean?
[error from hell]
--------------------Configuration: lesson1 - Win32 Debug--------------------
Compiling...
Lesson1.cpp
Linking...
Lesson1.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "void __cdecl FileInputModule(void)" (?FileInputModule@@YAXXZ)
Debug/lesson1.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
Error executing link.exe.

lesson1.exe - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s)
[/error from hell]

This happens when I make a call to a function, I don't know why!EDIT:
neermind i'm an idiot i spelled a function wrong

>I broke C++!
Hehe, I enjoyed this title. :)

>Lesson1.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "void __cdecl FileInputModule(void)" (?FileInputModule@@YAXXZ)
The body of FileInputModule is not defined anywhere, if it was a function you wrote yourself then you either forgot to write it or didn't include the header file it was defined in. If it is a third party function or standard with your compiler, make sure you are including both the library as well as the header.

-Prelude

Can you check this code to see if it make sense? I declard the Triangle at global scope because it didn't seem to work inside the function

The triangle is:
struct Triangle{
float a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i;
};

This code is supposed to read in coordinates from a file until the end of the file is reached. I put a messagebox to signal when it gets to the end of the file so make sure it works, but even with a small number of coordinates it never reaches the end of the file

note I've tried using fin.good and !fin.eof in the while loop

Code:

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void InputFileModule(void) {

vector<Triangle*> TriangleVector;


        ofstream fout;
        ifstream fin;
        fout.open("Formatted coords.txt");
        fin.open("Coordinates.txt");
        if(fout.fail()) {
                MessageBox(NULL, "Output file initialization failed", "ERROR", MB_OK);
                return;
        }

        if(fin.fail()) {
                MessageBox(NULL, "Input file initialization failed", "ERROR", MB_OK);
                return;
        }

        int x = 0;

        while(fin.good()) {
        TriangleVector.push_back(new Triangle);
        fin.ignore(2, NULL);
        fin >> TriangleVector[x]->a;
        fin >> TriangleVector[x]->b;
        fin >> TriangleVector[x]->c;
        fin.ignore(5, NULL);
        fin >> TriangleVector[x]->d;
        fin >> TriangleVector[x]->e;
        fin >> TriangleVector[x]->f;
        fin.ignore(5, NULL);
        fin >> TriangleVector[x]->g;
        fin >> TriangleVector[x]->h;
        fin >> TriangleVector[x]->i;
        fout << TriangleVector[x]->a << endl;
        fout << TriangleVector[x]->b << endl;
        fout << TriangleVector[x]->c << endl;
        fout << TriangleVector[x]->d << endl;
        fout << TriangleVector[x]->e << endl;
        fout << TriangleVector[x]->f << endl;
        fout << TriangleVector[x]->g << endl;
        fout << TriangleVector[x]->h << endl;
        fout << TriangleVector[x]->i << endl;
                fin.seekg('\n');
                fin.seekg(1);
        x++;
        }
     
                        MessageBox(NULL, "File Initialization Successful", "Success", MB_OK);


        fin.close();
        fout.close();   
}

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EDIT:
I tried putting
struct Triangle {
float a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i;
};
in the InputFileModule function and i get 20 errors !

I like this as well:

Quote:

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>I broke C++!
Hehe, I enjoyed this title.

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How about "The computer is giving me attitude again."

Anyway, Prelude has you on the right track.

The part Prelude answered to is fixed, but I am still having problems. The code I posted above compiles and runs but never signals that it completed and I don't know why.

Here is what is being inputted:
( 560 -680 -272 ) ( 560 -504 -272 ) ( 720 -504 -272 ) TSNOSKD [ -1 0 0 128 ] [ 0 1 0 24 ] 0 1 1
( 576 -504 -296 ) ( 576 -680 -296 ) ( 704 -680 -296 ) TSNOSKD [ -1 0 0 128 ] [ 0 1 0 24 ] 0 1 1
( 720 -504 -272 ) ( 704 -504 -296 ) ( 704 -680 -296 ) TSNOSKD [ 0 -1 0 -120 ] [ 0 0 -1 0 ] 0 1 1
( 576 -504 -296 ) ( 560 -504 -272 ) ( 560 -680 -272 ) TSNOSKD [ 0 -1 0 -120 ] [ 0 0 -1 0 ] 0 1 1
( 720 -680 -272 ) ( 704 -680 -296 ) ( 576 -680 -296 ) TSNOSKD [ -1 0 0 128 ] [ 0 0 -1 0 ] 0 1 1
( 704 -504 -296 ) ( 720 -504 -272 ) ( 560 -504 -272 ) TSNOSKD [ -1 0 0 128 ] [ 0 0 -1 0 ] 0 1 1

The idea is that once it gets to the last parenthesis it just goes to the next line

*inspects error*

Yup, ya broke C++! And I needed to use it to! Thanks alot!!

are you sure it's reading in anything? Try putting in a

cout << Trianglevector[x]->i;
char ch;
cin >> ch;

after the call fin...->i;

to see that you made it that far at least.

If that works then look up syntax for seekg. I think it takes an offset, not a terminating char, but I don't use it and can't say for sure. I would use:

cin.getline(dummy, 80, '\n');

instead of seekg() to ignore the remainder of the line if you read all the way to i successfully.

Yes I had a console version of the same code and it printed all of the correct values to the screen and it even wrote it to a new file, but, lo and behold it doesn't work when I move to non console :(

Also what is an offset exactly?