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Re: Programming Help Thread (For Dummies)
« Reply #780 on: October 01, 2012, 09:55:21 am »

Here I am, 9:45 on a Saturday night, working on class for a Master's in IT. Anyone have any Java Programming Questions? I am also experienced in PHP, Javascript and Drupal Development.

If you need a question, this one never got adequately resolved.

I'm trying to make a program that will check a yahoo email. However, when I do emailChecker.recieve(), it gives me an error message. I am using JavaMail. The code looks like this:

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And the error message looks like this:
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Thanks in advance for the help.

Do you have a Yahoo Mail Plus account? Free accounts don't allow POP3 access.
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Re: Programming Help Thread (For Dummies)
« Reply #781 on: October 01, 2012, 06:44:17 pm »

I do not, that explains it. Any idea how to check a gmail account? (The tutorial I found was for yahoo mail, so I tried that).

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« Reply #782 on: October 02, 2012, 06:34:54 am »

I am trying to make a (first) useful program in C. What I'm doing is that I'm trying to convert a binary image file of some strange format output by a CCD interface program (long story) into an ASCII table for further manipulation.

My problem involves reading the file in the first place. I have looked at several tutorials online but when I try to write similar code, it doesn't do what I want it to. So far I'm just trying out reading methods. Here's what I have so far:

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#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
FILE *file;
int close;
char in;
char out[11];
int i = 0;

file=fopen("c:\\test\\test.txt", "r");

while( (in = fgetc(file)) != EOF);
{
printf("%c", in);
out[i] = in;
i = ++i;
}

close = fclose(file);
printf("close = %d \n", close);

getchar();
return 0;
}

The program compiles and runs just fine, but it doesn't output anything. "test.txt" looks like this: "1 2 3 a b c", without quotes.

Also, I've seen the construct
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int x[] to declare arrays in several tutorials, yet none explain what this means. I understand what x[10] or x[10] [10] means (a size 10 and a size 10 x 10 array, respectively). Finally, does x[10] give an array with elements 0-10 or an array with elements 0-9? I.e., does it give a 10 element array or an array with element 10 as its last element? Edit: Never mind, I just found this out myself.

Sorry for my extreme noobishness, but you've got to start somewhere, right?
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Re: Programming Help Thread (For Dummies)
« Reply #783 on: October 02, 2012, 08:55:44 am »

The program compiles and runs just fine, but it doesn't output anything. "test.txt" looks like this: "1 2 3 a b c", without quotes.

Also, I've seen the construct
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int x[] to declare arrays in several tutorials, yet none explain what this means. I understand what x[10] or x[10] [10] means (a size 10 and a size 10 x 10 array, respectively). Finally, does x[10] give an array with elements 0-10 or an array with elements 0-9? I.e., does it give a 10 element array or an array with element 10 as its last element? Edit: Never mind, I just found this out myself.

Sorry for my extreme noobishness, but you've got to start somewhere, right?

Okay so the reason is your ; after the while line. That will end the while loop there, its how single line while blocks work. Afterwards you have a scoped section that isn't actually realated to the while loop, at which point 'in' is -1.

Edit:
As an aside you don't need to say i = ++i;
++i; will already post increment the value of i, assigning it afterwards is just setting it to itself.
« Last Edit: October 02, 2012, 08:58:41 am by Shades »
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Re: Programming Help Thread (For Dummies)
« Reply #784 on: October 02, 2012, 09:54:45 am »

Thank you for the help! I found the problem on my own, though, but I appreciate it none the less.

I had a new problem, but it turns out your advice about not putting semi-colons after loop initializations were applicable there as well. :-[

What about the x[] array declaration? Does anyone have an explanation?
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Re: Programming Help Thread (For Dummies)
« Reply #785 on: October 02, 2012, 10:30:21 am »

Edit:
As an aside you don't need to say i = ++i;
++i; will already post increment the value of i, assigning it afterwards is just setting it to itself.
And you can also do "i++;", which I personally like (but YMMV).  Of course "i=i++;" might not be as useful. ;)


edit: Forgot to say (And I thought you'd said you'd found out) "x[]" is basically a "it's an array, but I'm not giving the size here".

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// Defining an array of ten items (all set to zero, I /think/ - I rarely leave uninitialised arrays that way for long)
int x[10];
// Defining an array of ten items *and initialising with values*
int y[10] = { 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89 };
// Defining an array of ten items *and initialising the first four, the rest will be zero*
int z[10] = { 2,4,6,8 };
// Defining an indeterminate array (not something I do often) with a determinate set of values
int u[] = { 1,3,7,9 };  // equivalent to int u[4] =  { 1,3,7,9 };

...assuming I'm not wrong.  I might be polluted with another computer dialect or language of what you're using.  But someone will correct me, if so.
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Re: Programming Help Thread (For Dummies)
« Reply #786 on: October 02, 2012, 05:13:20 pm »

int array[] = otherarray;
only works in C#, methinks.

Codepad gives me this error:
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In function 'int main()':
Line 9: error: initializer fails to determine size of 'a3'
compilation terminated due to -Wfatal-errors.
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« Reply #787 on: October 03, 2012, 04:05:41 am »

"x[]" is basically a "it's an array, but I'm not giving the size here".

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// Defining an indeterminate array (not something I do often) with a determinate set of values
int u[] = { 1,3,7,9 };  // equivalent to int u[4] =  { 1,3,7,9 };

Pretty sure this is right, I can't remember when I last declared an array like that (I generally use c++ not c and so tend towards std::array)  but I'm pretty sure you can't only declare an array like this if your also defining the contents (as in Starvers' example) so that size is known at compile time. (which I believe is the error Skyrunner got)

You can do variably sized arrays with int *u = new int
  • ; where x is a variable defining the length at run time (as opposed to compile time). But then you get into the whole new/delete thing which is another thing I tend to avoid.


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Re: Programming Help Thread (For Dummies)
« Reply #788 on: October 03, 2012, 04:09:56 am »

I tend to use <vector>'s vectors. :D
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« Reply #789 on: October 03, 2012, 04:04:12 pm »

In C++, how would I go about getting different variable types from one file? For example, say the file's contents were like this:

derp
0.2
30

How do I get a string from the first line, a float from the next, and an int from the third?
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Re: Programming Help Thread (For Dummies)
« Reply #790 on: October 03, 2012, 05:41:19 pm »

Does C++ have any text parser functions? Because that's how I'd do it in Java. Read all three as strings, and then extract other values from the strings.
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Re: Programming Help Thread (For Dummies)
« Reply #791 on: October 03, 2012, 07:55:05 pm »

if the format is predictable (string, double/float, integer, etc) in a repeating pattern then you could write up your own parsing system. Read line, parse as first data type, increment data type to expect, read next line, continue and restart the data type counter whenever you reach the end of an entry.

I haven't played much in C++ lately, but that is the logic I'd use to make it work.
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Re: Programming Help Thread (For Dummies)
« Reply #792 on: October 03, 2012, 08:03:13 pm »

Can the string contain characters? You could check to see if a char is present, if yes it's a string else numbers.
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Re: Programming Help Thread (For Dummies)
« Reply #793 on: October 03, 2012, 08:21:08 pm »

I believe that strings are treated as char constant arrays (probably misnaming) but you could do a quick check through string[index] -> string.Length (or some other magic) and come up with the answer.  So yes, it is my belief that you could do single character checks until either end of line or until you find a non-number character :D
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« Reply #794 on: October 03, 2012, 08:41:53 pm »

Sorry I meant can the string contain numbers.
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