For Loop Acting Goofy

Trying to make a simple app to output a range of characters to a text file. This is the code:

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
int test[221];

int main ()
{
        std::ofstream ascii_file ( "ascii.txt" );       
        if ( !ascii_file.is_open() )
        {
                std::cout<<"File could not be opened.\n";
                std::cout<<"Press enter key to exit...";
                std::cin.get();
                return 0;
        }

        ascii_file<<"ASCII Characters\n";
        ascii_file<<"----------------\n";

        for ( int i = 179; i <= 220; i = i + 6 )
        {
                test[i] = i;
                /*
                std::cout<<test[i]<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<" ";
                std::cout<<test[i]++<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<" ";
                std::cout<<test[i]++<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<" ";
                std::cout<<test[i]++<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<" ";
                std::cout<<test[i]++<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<" ";
                std::cout<<test[i]++<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<"\n";
                */
                ascii_file<<test[i]<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<" ";
                ascii_file<<test[i]++<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<" ";
                ascii_file<<test[i]++<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<" ";
                ascii_file<<test[i]++<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<" ";
                ascii_file<<test[i]++<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<" ";
                ascii_file<<test[i]++<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<"\n";
        }
        ascii_file.close();
        std::cout<<"File written successfully.\n";
        std::cout<<"Press enter key to exit...";
        std::cin.get();
        return 0;
}

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And this is the unexpected output:

Code:

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ASCII Borders
-------------
179: ³ 179: ´ 180: µ 181: ¶ 182: · 183: ¸
185: ¹ 185: º 186: » 187: ¼ 188: ½ 189: ¾
191: ¿ 191: À 192: Á 193: Â 194: Ã 195: Ä
197: Å 197: Æ 198: Ç 199: È 200: É 201: Ê
203: Ë 203: Ì 204: Í 205: Î 206: Ï 207: Ð
209: Ñ 209: Ò 210: Ó 211: Ô 212: Õ 213: Ö
215: × 215: Ø 216: Ù 217: Ú 218: Û 219: Ü

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I can't seem to get the numbers to orient themselves correctly. Any help would be appreciated.

What exactly are you expecting? Everything looks lined up to me.

Look closer.

Preincrement

Just do one output per loop and then check i to see if it's a multiple of 6, and if it is then output the newline. Your incrementing doesn't seem right, it is incrementing the value pointed to by the array, not the index i.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by MrWizard

Preincrement

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Thanks.

Code:

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                ascii_file<<test[i]<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<" ";
                ascii_file<<++test[i]<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<" ";
                ascii_file<<++test[i]<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<" ";
                ascii_file<<++test[i]<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<" ";
                ascii_file<<++test[i]<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<" ";
                ascii_file<<++test[i]<<": "<<(char)test[i]<<"\n";

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Outputs:

Code:

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ASCII Characters
----------------
179: ³ 180: ´ 181: µ 182: ¶ 183: · 184: ¸
185: ¹ 186: º 187: » 188: ¼ 189: ½ 190: ¾
191: ¿ 192: À 193: Á 194: Â 195: Ã 196: Ä
197: Å 198: Æ 199: Ç 200: È 201: É 202: Ê
203: Ë 204: Ì 205: Í 206: Î 207: Ï 208: Ð
209: Ñ 210: Ò 211: Ó 212: Ô 213: Õ 214: Ö
215: × 216: Ø 217: Ù 218: Ú 219: Û 220: Ü

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You can replace your entire array with an int variable called test. You are using the array as a single variable. There is no advantage to using the array there.