I'm lost

I'm having a lot of trouble with one of my assignments. We are supposed to make a program that inputs text from a file, then separates the incoming data into tokens. And then place each one into a 2-dimensional array of C-strings. Then we are supposed to make a second copy of the array of tokens and use the bubble down function to sort it. Next we are supposed to output the two arrays in two side by side columns of tokens. So far this is what I have.

Code:

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#include<cctype>
#include<string>
#include<iomanip>
#include<iostream>
#include<cmath>
#include<stdio.h>
#include<fstream>
using namespace std;
void gettoken(ifstream& ReadFile, char thetoken, int& k);
void copyarray(char& temp, char thetoken, char tokencopy);
void outputarray(char tokencopy, char thetoken);
void welcomemsg();
void sortarray(char tokencopy, int& k);
void inputfilename(ifstream& ReadFile);
void farewell();
int main()
{
        int k=0;
        char temp[1000];
        char tokencopy[500][500];
        char thetoken[500][500];
        ifstream ReadFile;
        welcomemsg();
        inputfilename(ReadFile);
        gettoken(ReadFile, thetoken[500][500], k);
        copyarray(temp[1000], tokencopy[500][500], thetoken[500][500]);
        sortarray(tokencopy[500][500], k);
        outputarray(tokencopy[500][500], thetoken[500][500]);
        farewell();
        return 0;
}
void welcomemsg()
{
        cout << "Welcome to Michael's Parser." << endl;
}
void inputfilename(ifstream& ReadFile)
{
        char pathname[50];
        cout << "What is the name of the input file? " << endl;
        cin >> pathname;
        ReadFile.open(pathname);
}
void gettoken(ifstream& ReadFile, char thetoken, int& k)
{
        char x;
        ReadFile.get(x);
        while(isalpha(x))
        {
                thetoken[k] = x;
                k++;
                ReadFile.get(x);
        }
        thetoken[k+1]='\0';
}
void copyarray(char& temp, char thetoken, char tokencopy)
{
        int x=0;
        int y=0;
        while(isalpha(thetoken[y][0]))
        {
                temp = thetoken[y][x];
                while(isalpha(temp));
                {
                        temp = tokencopy[y][x];
                        x++;
                        temp = thetoken[y][x];
                }
        y++;
        }       
}
void sortarray(char tokencopy, int& k)
{
        for(y=0; y < k; y++)
        {
                while(isalpha(tokencopy[0]))
                {
                        while(tokencopy[y]<tokencopy[y+1])
                        {
                                swap(tokencopy[y], tokencopy[y+1]);
                        }
                }
        }
}
void outputarray(char tokencopy, char thetoken)
{
        int y=0;
        cout << setw(12) << right << fixed << "Original tokens";
        cout << setw(12) << right << fixed << "Sorted tokens" << endl;
        while(isalpha(thetoken[y]))
        {
                cout << thetoken[y] << "                " << tokencopy[y];
        }
}
void farewell()
{
        cout << endl << "Thank you for using Michael's parser. Bye." << endl;
}

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I know there are tons of errors in there but the one thing I am really having a problem with is when it compiles I get the error "subscript requires array or pointer type" multiple times. I understand it has something to do with reading in the information from the text file and copying it into the array but I just can't figure it out. Also I know the bubble down function is way off so any help with that also would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

If you're passing arrays to functions, you need the function to expect an array:

Code:

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void copyarray(char& temp, char thetoken[500][500], char tokencopy[500][500])

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An example of your problem is in this function;

Code:

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void gettoken(ifstream& ReadFile, char thetoken, int& k)
{
        char x;
        ReadFile.get(x);
        while(isalpha(x))
        {
                thetoken[k] = x;
                k++;
                ReadFile.get(x);
        }
        thetoken[k+1]='\0';
}

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"thetoken" is declared as a single character. But you are accessing it as if it is an array. Subscripts only work for arrays. They do not work for single values.

Usually if your passing a 2 dimensional array, the compiler only needs to know one of the dimensions.

Code:

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void passArray ( char[][ 20 ] )

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But this is purly programmer prefferance. :)

did you end up figuring this out? I have the same exact project and I am totally lost!

A big fat problem in the code is:
tokencopy[500][500]
This accesses the 500th subscript of the 500th element (which btw, doesn't exist).
To pass the whole array, one simply types the name.
And it's preferable to use std::string instead of char.

Plus a 500 x 500 string array is a little too much for the stack. It fills up about a 4th of it (if it's one MB), so it's better to allocate it on the heap.

this is mine so far...which is nothing...

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
ifstream myfile;

myfile.open("/Users/Ashley/Desktop/words.txt");

char words[20][10];
char wordscopy[20][10];

int row;
int col;

for (row = 0; row < 20; row++)
myfile.get(words[row],10);

for(row = 0; row < 20; row++)
for(col = 0; col < 10; col++)
{
if (isalpha (words[row][col]))
cout << words[row][col];
if (isspace (words[row][col]))
cout << endl;
}


return 0;
}


my output looks something like this:

This
is
the
text
I
want
my
program
to
sort
out

so I now have all my words sorted out in a column, but I now have to copy that array to another array then bubblesort the copied array.

the copied array should look something like this:

I
is
my
out
program
sort
text
the
This
want

but I am completely lost on how to sort a 2d array.

please please help!

Please use code tags for your code.

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
ifstream myfile;

myfile.open("/Users/Ashley/Desktop/words.txt"); //this is the text file that hold a sentence

char words[20][10]; //the array to hold the sorted sentence
char wordscopy[20][10]; //copy of the previous array that will then be bubblesorted

int row;
int col;

for (row = 0; row < 20; row++)
myfile.get(words[row],10); //loop to get the file text into the array

for(row = 0; row < 20; row++)
for(col = 0; col < 10; col++)
{
if (isalpha (words[row][col]))
cout << words[row][col]; //outputs the letters until non alpha
if (isspace (words[row][col]))
cout << endl; //starts new row when it detects a space
}



return 0;
}

does that make a little sense?