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Thanks.

I will stick with using C for now. Perl does look like a good option but I'm a little hesitant to try it out as I'd like more experience of C at present - but Perl is definately something...

Hmmm, I'm afraid I don't know Perl - and its not for homework.
I guess I'll take a look at expat and take it from there.

Thanks.

Yes, doing it it in C is a requirement (and the only language I know a little about).

Out of curiosity, which language would this be the easiest to do this in?

Hi,

I have a number of xml files which need to be converted into csv files - which would be the best method to do this using C (I have use of an oracle db if need be)?

Ta,

Manny

Can you give more details in your answers please as I do not understand them.

Hi,

I have a variable defined as follows:

char l_string[20]="";

l_string is populated with values which may or may not have an asterix as the last character i.e.

abcd
efghi*

Hi,

Can somebody advise what the best method is to round a float value UP to the nearest whole value:

i.e 1.678 should result in 2.000
i.e 1.012 should also result in 2.000
i.e 1.001 should...

Great.... *-1 does the trick.

ta.

Hello all,

How do I convert a negative float to a positive float?

Cheers,

Manny

If I create a small program and compile/run it with gdb it works fine and I am able to debug ok.
Its only when I use the Makefile that it does not work.

Anybody else got any ideas or suggestions?

I set CFLAGS as below but got an error:
CFLAGS= -Wall -g -c

The error was.......
cc $(CFLAGS) -I/ingres_II/ingres/files -o /home/test_prog.o /home/test_prog.c
cc: illegal option -Wall

Not...

Hi Kermit,

Thanks for that suggestion but that doesn't work either, it returns a warning:
cc: Warning: illegal option -db

Do you think one of the flags in the $LIBS variable is suppressing the...

Hi,

I'd like to run a program in debug using gdb on SunOS 5.6, but I keep getting the following message when i start gdb:

"This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.6"...(no debugging...

Thanks, I'll have a hunt around in the docs.

Hi,

I tried the commands as below, but they do not give the compiler version.

Any other ideas?

Manny

Hi,

Previously I have only used C and the debugger on a VMS platform. Unix is totally new to me. The operating system is SunOS 5.6.
I don't know how to find out which compiler we're using.
...

Hello all,

I am using c on unix but I'm not sure how to kick off a debugger?
I tried compiling as follows:

cc -g test22.c -o test22_deb

and then tried running the exe :

test22_deb

Hi,

Lets say I have a variable char l_string[6 + 1] which gets populated with “123456”.

How can I convert this into a monetory value in a float i.e 1234.56
Using the atof function gives me...

Hello,

Please advise on the best way to extract values of a string so that I can use them to insert into a db - I am thinking of doing it the following way (untested):

String is as follows (but...

Hello all,

Regarding strstr...

If I declare l_start has a pointer to char:
char *l_start

Can I use strstr on the same pointer? i.e.

l_start = strstr(v_string, "*");