my first project, A question

whats not working here its meant to make a text file that goes:
admin forceclass 1 spr
" " 2 spr
3 spr etc uip to 2000

im getin all kinds of errors wont compile

the type is at users discretion

Code:

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#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{

    char cont[3];
    char type[7];
   
    cout << "this is the americas army admin forceclass file maker.\n";
    sleep(60);
    cout << "this will make a .txt file anywere you have this program.\n";
    sleep(60);
    cout << "i suggest you have this program on your desktop so the file will show up on your desktop.\n";
    sleep(60);
    cout << "if this file is in a folder the .txt file will appear in the folder this program is in.\n";
    sleep(60);
    cout << "Copyright Richard Wilson, made with the Dev-C++ Compiler Code supplied/created by Richard Wilson, all rights reserved\n\n";
    sleep(60);
    cout << " do you wish to continue (y or n) \n";
    sleep(60);
    cout << "Enter: ";
    cin.getline ( cont, 3 );
    if ( strcmp ( cont, "n" ) == 0 ) {
        cout << "\npress enter to exit...";
        cin.get();
    }
    else if ( strcmp ( cont, "y" ) == 0 ) {
        cout << "\n what type of forceclass will it be?\n";
        cout << " exaple spr rpg m4a1 s24 sf etc. to be forceclassed.\n";
        cout << "    NOTE: this will also be the file name if you choose spr the file will be spr.txt!\n";
        cout << "please enter the type: ";
        cin.getline ( type, 7 );
        cout << "n\ Thank you, please wait wile your file is created.....";
        ofstream forceclass ( ""<< 'type' <<".txt" );
       
        if ( forceclass.is_open() ) {
              for ( int x = 1; x < 2001; ++x ) {
                  forceclass << "admin forceclass "<< x << 'type' <<"\n";
                  sleep(300);
                  cout << "\n File Succesfully Created! Press Enter!\n";
                  forceclass.close();
                  cin.ignore();             
              };
              else {
                  sleep(300);
                  cout << "\n File Cannot Be Created, Press Enter\n";
                  cin.ignore();
              }
        }
    cout << "This File (if created) will be located in the direcotry as previously described\n";
    cout << "Copyright Richard Wilson 2005\n";
    cout << "Contact Me at [email protected] if you discover any bugs...\n";
    cout << " Press Enter\n";
    cin.ignore();
    }
    cout << " quit the program by pressing enter\n";
    cout << "\n\n\n                        Thank You!";
    cin.get();
}

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help plz

and the first sleep(60) it says its undeclared

this is my first C++ project and i will distribute this...

i want it to work badly!! ill give credits to the people who help me in the program. THANKS!

that because C++ is case senstive, try Sleep(60);

Code:

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#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{

    char cont[3];
    char type[7];
   
    cout << "this is the americas army admin forceclass file maker.\n";
    Sleep(60);
    cout << "this will make a .txt file anywere you have this program.\n";
    Sleep(60);
    cout << "i suggest you have this program on your desktop so the file will show up on your desktop.\n";
    Sleep(60);
    cout << "if this file is in a folder the .txt file will appear in the folder this program is in.\n";
    Sleep(60);
    cout << "Copyright Richard Wilson, made with the Dev-C++ Compiler Code supplied/created by Richard Wilson, all rights reserved\n\n";
    Sleep(60);
    cout << " do you wish to continue (y or n) \n";
    Sleep(60);
    cout << "Enter: ";
    cin.getline ( cont, 3 );
    if ( strcmp ( cont, "n" ) == 0 ) {
        cout << "\npress enter to exit...";
        cin.get();
    }
    else if ( strcmp ( cont, "y" ) == 0 ) {
        cout << "\n what type of forceclass will it be?\n";
        cout << " exaple spr rpg m4a1 s24 sf etc. to be forceclassed.\n";
        cout << "    NOTE: this will also be the file name if you choose spr the file will be spr.txt!\n";
        cout << "please enter the type: ";
        cin.getline ( type, 7 );
        cout << "n\ Thank you, please wait wile your file is created.....";
        ofstream forceclass ( ""<< 'type' <<".txt" );
       
        if ( forceclass.is_open() ) {
              for ( int x = 1; x < 2001; ++x ) {
                  forceclass << "admin forceclass "<< x << 'type' <<"\n";
                  Sleep(300);
                  cout << "\n File Succesfully Created! Press Enter!\n";
                  forceclass.close();
                  cin.ignore();             
              };
              else {
                  Sleep(300);
                  cout << "\n File Cannot Be Created, Press Enter\n";
                  cin.ignore();
              }
        }
    cout << "This File (if created) will be located in the direcotry as previously described\n";
    cout << "Copyright Richard Wilson 2005\n";
    cout << "Contact Me at [email protected] if you discover any bugs...\n";
    cout << " Press Enter\n";
    cin.ignore();
    }
    cout << " quit the program by pressing enter\n";
    cout << "\n\n\n                        Thank You!";
    cin.get();
}

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lol eliminated that error but it still has eroors i dont know whats wrong trid everythin.

well i dont have access to my compiler right at the minute and i
dont feel liek scanning your code visually, lol sorry,
so if you could paste your error i will be glad to help.

Oh btw one error i noticed is after a for loop close brackets, you dont need a ';' , just the brackets.

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Originally Posted by ILoveVectors

well i dont have access to my compiler right at the minute and i
dont feel liek scanning your code visually, lol sorry,
so if you could paste your error i will be glad to help.

Oh btw one error i noticed is after a for loop close brackets, you dont need a ';' , just the brackets.

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i have to write it out

Line Error
38:18 warning
39:37 warning multi-character charecter constant
in function int main()
39 invalid operands of types const char[1] and int to binary operator>>
43:60 warning multi-character charcter constant
49 expected primary-expression before else
49 expected ; before else



there i think lol

You can't do this:

Code:

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ofstream forceclass ( ""<< 'type' <<".txt" );

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You will have to add .txt to your file name and end up with just the file name.

Code:

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ofstream forceclass ( fileName );

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I suggest reading up on File I/O and strings

Also

Code:

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forceclass << "admin forceclass "<< x << 'type' <<"\n";

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You are trying to output the char of an array pointer...Not so good.

I really would suggest using strings it would make it so much easier to learn and harder to mess up.

I went thru it and got rid of your errors, i didnt test it,
so you will have to tell me if it working as you expected,
but if you want to learn c++, then you should stop with
the ways of 'C' and learn things like this :

http://www.msoe.edu/eecs/ce/courseinfo/stl/string.htm

Code:

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#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{

    char cont[3];
    char type[7];
   
    cout << "this is the americas army admin forceclass file maker.\n";
    Sleep(60);
    cout << "this will make a .txt file anywere you have this program.\n";
    Sleep(60);
    cout << "i suggest you have this program on your desktop so the file will show up on your desktop.\n";
    Sleep(60);
    cout << "if this file is in a folder the .txt file will appear in the folder this program is in.\n";
    Sleep(60);
    cout << "Copyright Richard Wilson, made with the Dev-C++ Compiler Code supplied/created by Richard Wilson, all rights reserved\n\n";
    Sleep(60);
    cout << " do you wish to continue (y or n) \n";
    Sleep(60);
    cout << "Enter: ";
    cin.getline ( cont, 3 );
    if ( strcmp ( cont, "n" ) == 0 )
        {
        cout << "\npress enter to exit...";
        cin.get();
    }
    else if ( strcmp ( cont, "y" ) == 0 )
        {
        cout << "\n what type of forceclass will it be?\n";
        cout << " exaple spr rpg m4a1 s24 sf etc. to be forceclassed.\n";
        cout << "    NOTE: this will also be the file name if you choose spr the file will be spr.txt!\n";
        cout << "please enter the type: ";
        cin.getline ( type, 7 );
        cout << "\n Thank you, please wait wile your file is created.....";
                strcat(type, ".txt");
        ofstream forceclass(type);
       
        if ( forceclass.is_open() )
                {
              for ( int x = 1; x < 2001; ++x )
                          {
                  forceclass << "admin forceclass "<< x << 'type' <<"\n";
                  Sleep(300);
                  cout << "\n File Succesfully Created! Press Enter!\n";
                  forceclass.close();
                  cin.ignore();             
              }
                }
        else
                {
              Sleep(300);
              cout << "\n File Cannot Be Created, Press Enter\n";
              cin.ignore();
        }
    cout << "This File (if created) will be located in the direcotry as previously described\n";
    cout << "Copyright Richard Wilson 2005\n";
    cout << "Contact Me at [email protected] if you discover any bugs...\n";
    cout << " Press Enter\n";
    cin.ignore();
    }
    cout << " quit the program by pressing enter\n";
    cout << "\n\n\n                        Thank You!";
    cin.get();
}

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it com[piled but there is a warning that comes with

Code:

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forceclass << "admin forceclass "<< x << 'type' <<"\n";

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multi-charecter charecter constant the program compiles and runs until it gets to fil successfully created! press enter once you press enter it just says it again andd again and so on...
the file created was rpg but the thing is it had this in it:
admin forceclass 11954115685
were shud be sumin like admin forceclass 1 rpg all the way to 2000

i think, nvm i have no clue

........ forgot bout strcat lol

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Code:

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strcat(type, ".txt");

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but sstill the above errors

did you change all the code because i compiled with no errors.

yes copied n paste but i get errors when i run the damn thing and a warning wheni compile it i get how u did it (forgot bout strcat) just its malfunctioning lol i examined it it must be the input to forceclass i dont get it though and why when it gets to File Has Been Created Succesfully it repeats itself when u press enter :S

is it because i have ' around type? or should i have a pair of << when i enter those things

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Compiler/IDE : Visual Studio .NET 2003 Architect

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can i get a copy for free legally?

Not that i know of, you can get 2005 Beta for free
i think if they still offer it.

oh also i dont see what malfunction you are getting with
the file creation, i see the creation of the file when i run it,
and the reason it keeps repeating it self is do
to the for loop, maybe a for loop isnt what you had in mind
there.

yea well it screws up the file and puts that one line

ok for me to better help you i need to knwo what the file
is suppose to look like when the program finishes running.

ok i inputed the type as 'rpg' so the file name is rpg.txt it should say:
admin forceclass 1 rpg
admin forceclass 2 rpg
admin forceclass 3 rpg
....

all the way too 2000

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Originally Posted by C+noob

is it because i have ' around type? or should i have a pair of << when i enter those things

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type has been declared by you as a char array. Right now you are trying to output the char value of the memorry address. What you want to do is output each letter or if you should chose to use strings and type was declared as a string, then you could just take of the ' and it would worry about outputting it for you.

I'm not an expert with C functions and/or utilities so I don't know if there is a function to do this for you but you would have to do:

Code:

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int SIZE = strlen(type);
for (int count = 0; count < SIZE; count++) {
  forceclass << type[count];
}

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i have no clue how i would implement that into my code?!?!?!?

im writing your code voer again in a more c++ like way,
i dont epect you to use it i expect you to learn from
it and possibly see where youd like go go with your next adventure.

Ill be posting it in a minute.

lol im here for personal gain lol im 14 i dont think im takin a university exam on it next monday lol my goal is to learn everything about computers and develop an O/S better than windows later on in life.

OK here is the long awaited code, i did alot of testing,
and learned one thing my self in the process even though
the code is rather simple. like i said i did test it alot,
but i may have missed something im half asleep,
i will be going to bed soon so any question you have,
please ask quickly :)

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

void menu(void);

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        string filelocation = argv[0];
        string type;
        size_t pos = filelocation.find_last_of("\\");
        filelocation.erase(pos, (filelocation.size()-pos));
        string filename;
        fstream forceclassfile;
    menu();
        getline(cin, filename, '\n');
        type = filename;
        filename += ".txt";
        forceclassfile.open(filename.c_str(), ios::out);
        if ( !forceclassfile.fail() )
        {
                for(int x = 1; x != 2001; x++)
                {
                        forceclassfile << "admin forceclass "<< x << " " << type << endl;
                }
        cout << "File Succesfully Created! Press Enter!" << endl;
                cout << "Your file can be found here : " << endl;
                cout << filelocation << "\\" << filename << endl;
        forceclassfile.close();             
        }
        else
        {
                cout << "File Cannot Be Created" << endl;
                cout << "Program Terminating!" << endl;
                Sleep(3000);
                return 2;
        }
    cout << "Copyright Richard Wilson 2005\n";
    cout << "Contact Me at [email protected] if you discover any bugs...\n";
    cout << "Press Enter\n";
        cin.get();
        return 0;
}

void menu(void)
{
        cout << "This is the americas army admin forceclass file maker." << endl;
    cout << "This will make a .txt file anywere you have this program." << endl;
    cout << "I suggest you have this program on your desktop so the file" << endl;
        cout << "will show up on your desktop." << endl;
    cout << "If this file is in a folder the .txt file will appear in the" << endl;
        cout << "folder this program is in." << endl;
    cout << "Copyright Richard Wilson, made with the Dev-C++ Compiler Code" << endl;
        cout << "supplied/created by Richard Wilson, all rights reserved" << endl << endl;
    cout << "Press Enter when you are ready to continue." << endl;
    cin.get();
    cout << "What type of forceclass will it be?" << endl;
        cout << "Exsamples :" << endl;
        cout << "spr rpg m4a1 s24 sf" << endl;
    cout << "Please enter the type: ";
}

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P.S.
If it were for people like C+noob and many other id be bored
out of my mind, so thanks for your post and what not it always
a pleasure to help those that truely want to learn.

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Code:

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void menu(void);

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        string filelocation = argv[0];
        string type;
        size_t pos = filelocation.find_last_of("\\");
        filelocation.erase(pos, (filelocation.size()-pos));
        string filename;
        fstream forceclassfile;
    menu();
        getline(cin, filename, '\n');
        type = filename;
        filename += ".txt";
        forceclassfile.open(filename.c_str(), ios::out);
        if ( !forceclassfile.fail() )
        {

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what happened to #include <cstring> ?

about all that i quoted means jus basically im doing sumthin ........ off lol rather than this is what im doing lol its nonsense lol ive never seen code like that wow i dont understand any of it.

mgot a good tut sumwere bout this string header and i never have understood the void thing if its making it like god..... if its sayin dont worry about this why are you defining it? and what the hell are those things u put in main()?

well cstring is the devil, beside this is not c we doing c++ so we
use the header string.

most of that stuff is string manipulation which if you look that link
in earlier post will teach you about it.

the fstream object, i declared ahead of time instead of with the
file and i opened it later.

the void menu(void) is a function which when called by menu();
in the main code displays everything in its defintion below main;

the paramter main is taking is for command line arguments,
which all it there for is to let me get the location
of the running program there for allowing me to locate
the location of our outputted file.

Errm oh and void, is used in my function above simply to state
that i wont be returning a value or sending a value to it.

ok?!?! still add me on aim mmk deathbydesire101 or msn [email protected] and yea ill research it its ironic outta all these members lol its always you that seems to ficx my problems :P

will do ill message you right now, btw this is that code commented

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

void menu(void);//void because im not sending or recieving any values

int main(int argc, char *argv[])//command line parameters
{
        string filelocation = argv[0];//save the file location into a string
        string type;
        size_t pos = filelocation.find_last_of("\\");//find the location of the last "\"
        filelocation.erase(pos, (filelocation.size()-pos));//delete everything from the end of the string to the last "\"
        string filename;
        fstream forceclassfile; // declare a fstream object
    menu();// load the function menu declared above
        getline(cin, filename, '\n');
        type = filename;
        filename += ".txt"; //add .txt to the string
        forceclassfile.open(filename.c_str(), ios::out);//open the file with the user input
        if ( !forceclassfile.fail() )
        {
                for(int x = 1; x != 2001; x++)
                {
                        forceclassfile << "admin forceclass "<< x << " " << type << endl;
                }
        cout << "File Succesfully Created! Press Enter!" << endl;
                cout << "Your file can be found here : " << endl;
                cout << filelocation << "\\" << filename << endl;//displays the file location
        forceclassfile.close();             
        }
        else
        {
                cout << "File Cannot Be Created" << endl;
                cout << "Program Terminating!" << endl;
                Sleep(3000);
                return 2;
        }
    cout << "Copyright Richard Wilson 2005\n";
    cout << "Contact Me at [email protected] if you discover any bugs...\n";
    cout << "Press Enter\n";
        cin.get();
        return 0;
}

void menu(void)
{
        cout << "This is the americas army admin forceclass file maker." << endl;
    cout << "This will make a .txt file anywere you have this program." << endl;
    cout << "I suggest you have this program on your desktop so the file" << endl;
        cout << "will show up on your desktop." << endl;
    cout << "If this file is in a folder the .txt file will appear in the" << endl;
        cout << "folder this program is in." << endl;
    cout << "Copyright Richard Wilson, made with the Dev-C++ Compiler Code" << endl;
        cout << "supplied/created by Richard Wilson, all rights reserved" << endl << endl;
    cout << "Press Enter when you are ready to continue." << endl;
    cin.get();
    cout << "What type of forceclass will it be?" << endl;
        cout << "Exsamples :" << endl;
        cout << "spr rpg m4a1 s24 sf" << endl;
    cout << "Please enter the type: ";
}

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