std::string Array Element Access - c++

Despite being a Project Euler program, the following code doesn't actually concern it much. I want to add 50 100-digit numbers, and I'm assigning each digit of each number to an element in the array addends[100][50]. I'd then add up each digit/place individually, and carry over extra digits. The numbers are being read in from a text file named Input.txt, and it merely contains all the numbers. http://projecteuler.net/problem=13
I'm having trouble assigning characters to elements of a string array (string numbers[100][50]) from a file input stream (<fstream>). The problem is described more completely in the comments:
"[for the 1st loop] This loop assigns a number to every string in the string array. Even though the second number (50) doesn't do anything (it seems to be overridden by std::string; see variable declaration), it needs to be there for the loop to work. Same "logic" for the loop; "j" doesn't do anything but needs to be there for the loop to work?"
And also, (for the 2nd loop) "This loop fills in the "addends[100][50]" array from the corresponding string array element. If I try to call "char_to_int()" with the array"numbers[i][j]", the compiler complains that the input isn't of the right data type. Adding a variable "k" makes the loop work for one run, but eventually crashes on the second loop (using "numbers[i][j][k]"). So I tried "char_to_int((numbers[i][j]).c_str())", but the compiler complains that "const char *" is incompatible with "char". Adding a pointer resolves the issue ("char_to_int( *( (numbers[i][j]).c_str() ) )"), but the program still crashes later." I took out some code that doesn't matter to make it more readable.
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int char_to_int(char chInput);
int main()
{
int placeholder; //so console doesn't close immediately upon finish
int sum[102] = {0}; // 100+2, 100 places + 2 places from carrying over
int addends[100][50] = {0};
string numbers[100][50];
ifstream input("Input.txt");
/* This loop assigns a number to every string in the string array. Even
* though the second number (50) doesn't do anything (it seems to be
* overridden by std::string; see variable declaration), it needs to be
* there for the loop to work. Same "logic" for the loop; "j" doesn't do
* anything but needs to be there??? Confused :-\
*/
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
for (int j = 0; j < 1; j++)
getline(input, numbers[i][j]);
/* This loop fills in the "addends[100][50]" array from the corresponding
* string array element. If I try to call "char_to_int()" with the array
* "numbers[i][j]", the compliler complains that the input isn't of the
* right data type. Adding a variable "k" makes the loop work for one run,
* but eventually crashes on the second loop (using "numbers[i][j][k]").
* So I tried "char_to_int((numbers[i][j]).c_str())", but the compiler
* complains that "const char *" is incompatible with "char". Adding a
* pointer resolves the issue ("char_to_int( *( (numbers[i][j]).c_str() ) )"),
* but the program still crashes on the second loop through.
*/
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
for (int j = 0; j < 50; j++)
for (int k = 0; k < 1; k++) //used when the variable "k" was being used
addends[i][j] = char_to_int( (numbers[i][j]).c_str() );
return 0;
}
The code isn't finished; I decided against going on since I (obviously) need to fix this first.

It compiles and runs fine with
string numbers[100];
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
getline(input, numbers[i]);
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
for (int j = 0; j < 50; j++)
addends[i][j] = char_to_int( (numbers[i][j]));
after removing the stdafx.h include and defining char_to_int.
A std::string contains an array of characters itself, so you only need a one-dimensional array of std::strings. You can then access the characters of a string by [] indexing,
numbers[i][j]
gets the j-th character (byte, rather) of the i-th string in the array numbers.

Related

Make floor pattern

How do i make this?
image of my homework
note: Batasan means limitaion and Contoh means example
So, my professor wants me to do make output the same size horizontal and vertically in pattern shown in the image
I dont know what to do, but the best i can make is this:
#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
int main(){
int n;
const char * array1[4];
const char * array2[4];
array1[0] = "O", array1[1] = ">", array1[2] = "X", array1[3] = "<";
array2[0] = "v", array2[1] = "/", array2[2] = "^", array2[3] = "\\";
cin>>n;
for(int i = 1; i <= n; i++){
if (i%2 != 0){
for(int j = 0; j <=n; j++){
cout << array1[j];
}
cout<<"\n";
} else if (i%2 != 0) {
for(int j = 0; j <=n; j++){
cout << array2[j];
}
cout<<"\n";
}
return 0;
}
}
I dont know if array is necessary or not.
If you guys have any suggestion about my program feel free to give me some.
This is my first time asking in this web and im sorry if my post and english are terrible
Thanks in advance:)
We are here to help.
I will first show you the problems in your code and then make a proposal on how to make it better.
So, let us first check your code:
#include<bits/stdc++.h> is a non C++ compliant compiler extension. It should never be used. On my machine, it does not compile.
using namespace std; should not be used. It is better to always use full qualified names. This will avoid name clashes from different scopes or namespaces
Variables should have meaningful names. One character variables are in most cases not that good
All variables should be initialized during definition
C-Style arrays should not be used in C++. Always use a specialized STL container like std::vector or std::array
In C++ we use std::string for strings and not char[] or char *
Array indices in C/C++ start with 0. If you use <= in the end condition of a for loop, you will access an element one past the end. This is a severe out of bound error. You do that in you for loop with the 'j'
There is anyway a severe out of bound bug here. You access array[j] and j might be 4 or bigger. That is a bug and must be corrected. You can simply do a modulo devision % by 4. Then you do never exceed the 4. it will then always be 0,1,2,3,0,1,2,3,0,1,2,3 . . .
You should write as much as possible comments
If we correct all this findings, then we could come up with:
#include <array>
#include <iostream>
constexpr size_t NumberOfLinePatterns = 2;
constexpr size_t NumberOfElementsPerLinePattern = 4;
using Pattern = std::array<std::array<char, NumberOfElementsPerLinePattern>, NumberOfLinePatterns>;
// If you do not yet know the std::array. Then uncomment the following and
// remove on opening and closing curly brace in the initialization below
// using Pattern = char[NumberOfLinePatterns][NumberOfElementsPerLinePattern];
Pattern pattern{{
{'O','>','X','<'},
{'v','/','^','\\'}
}};
int main() {
// Get number of rows and columns to print
unsigned int numberOfElements{}; std::cin >> numberOfElements;
// Now, for all rows and columns
for (unsigned int row{}; row < numberOfElements; ++row) {
for (unsigned int column{}; column < numberOfElements; ++column) {
// Print the selected character
std::cout << pattern[row % NumberOfLinePatterns][column % NumberOfElementsPerLinePattern];
}
std::cout << '\n';
}
return 0;
}

2D array elements not being read properly

The output is a string of numbers of entire row/column instead of a single number. Can someone please help me in this?
int main() {
/* Enter your code here. Read input from STDIN. Print output to STDOUT */
int t;
cin>>t;
while(t--){
int n,m,cnt=0;
cin>>n>>m;
for(int i=0;i<=n+1;i++){
for(int j=0;j<=m+1;j++){
if(i==0||i==n+1||j==m+1||j==0) G[i][j]=0;
cin>>G[i][j];
}
}
cout<<G[1][2]<<endl;//this gives wrong o/p
return 0;
}
Most likely you are reading out of bounds due to a i <= n + 1 and j <= m + 1 conditions in your for loops thus invoking undefined behavior resulting in a corrupted stack which explains the output you are seeing. Modify the boundaries to:
i < n and j < m. Arrays are zero indexed in C++. First array element is accessed via somearray[0] and the last element is somearray[n-1] not somearray[n] which is what you are trying to access in your code. The same goes for multi-dimensional arrays. The statement of:
cout << G[i][j] << endl;
is wrongly placed outside the for loops. It should be inside the inner for loop. The array should be defined as a second statement in your while loop:
int G[n][m]; // Avoid VLAs
That being said variable length arrays are not part of the C++ standard and you should prefer std::vector and std::array to raw arrays.
Assuming G is a 2D array of size n x m, then you go out of bounds here:
for(int i=0;i<=n+1;i++) {
for(int j=0;j<=m+1;j++)
since array indexing starts from 0, and ends at size - 1.
As a result, your code invokes Undefined Behavior. To avoid that, simply change your double for loop to this:
for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
for(int j = 0;j < m; j++)

C++ Passing arrays by reference to a function but contents remain unchanged

I'm working on a program to solve an Economics model. First, I declare a namespace as follows:
namespace myNameSpace
{
const int d1{10};
const int d2{5};
const int d3{7};
double array[d1][d2][d3]={};
}
Then, I have a function that modifies array:
void doSomething(double (&array)[myNameSpace::d1][myNameSpace::d2][myNameSpace::d3])
{
int i,j,k;
for (i=0, j=0, k=0; i<myNameSpace::d1,j<myNameSpace::d2,k<myNameSpace::d3; i++,j++,k++)
array[i][j][k]=i+j+k+1.0;
}
In the main function I call doSomething as:
int main()
{
doSomething(myNameSpace::array);
for (int i=0;j<myNameSpace::d1;j++)
std::cout << myNameSpace::array[i][1][1] << std::endl;
}
The output I get in the console is:
0
0
0
Can you provide any guidance on this? I've tried passing array without the address-of operator &, but then inside doSomething, array losses the first dimension. Any help will be highly appreciated!!
First of all, your for loop
for (i=0, j=0, k=0; i<myNameSpace::d1,j<myNameSpace::d2,k<myNameSpace::d3; i++,j++,k++)
doesn't do what you think it does, and you would've (hopefully) noticed that if you compiled with warnings (warning: relational comparison result unused).
It has 2, related, major problems:
Since i<myNameSpace::d1,j<myNameSpace::d2,k<myNameSpace::d3 only returns the value of the last comparison, due to the comma operator being used. So, you are effectively iterating until k<myNameSpace::d3.
The for loop you wrote - is just a single loop. It doesn't iterate through all possible combinations of values of i, j, and k, as you might have wanted.
It initializes i, j, k to 0; checks comparison expression (which, as explained by (1) only checks the value of k); and after the code in the loop was run - increments all of i, j, k by 1. Hence - you are setting only the 0/0/0, 1/1/1, 2/2/2, ..., up until k/k/k indices of your array. And, because your middle array has a bound, which is smaller than k - you invoke undefined behavior by stepping out of bounds.
And, lastly, you are printing only the i/1/1 index of your array, and since the only one value in the index range 0/1/1-d1/1/1 that's set is 1/1/1 - it is, exactly what's printed with a non-zero value.
To iterate over the whole array, as, might have been your intention - you should use nested loops, so they would allow all of the loop variables to change independently of one another:
for (i=0; i<myNameSpace::d1; i++)
{
for (j=0; j<myNameSpace::d2; j++)
{
for (k=0; k<myNameSpace::d3; k++)
{
array[i][j][k]=i+j+k+1.0;
}
}
}
for start you have a problem with your for loop
initialize i and running over j. once I changed it, I received some values.
If your array declared with those sizes it's way shorter (and readable)to write:
void doSomething( declspec(myNameSpace::array) &array )
or much better to declare type alias to use it everywhere:
using myArrayType = double[myNameSpace::d1][myNameSpace::d2][myNameSpace::d3];
not to mention that d1,d2 and d3 should be const. Toset ALL elements of array your loops should look like this:
void doSomething( myArrayType &array )
{
int i,j,k;
for ( i = 0; i < myNameSpace::d1; i++)
for ( j = 0; j < myNameSpace::d2; j++)
for (k = 0; k < myNameSpace::d3; k++)
array[i][j][k]=i+j+k+1.0;
}
Everything written in single for divided by comma is happening in single iteration. There are perverted ways to write it in single for() but I don't recommend that code.
for() loop is very flexible. pretty much it looks like
for(expressionFirst; expressionCheck; expressionEach )
statement to execute
expressionFirst can be ANY statement OR a single declaration, it executes only once, before loop starts. expressionCheck executed at beginning of each iteration, it must be any expression that is contextually convertible to bool (i.e. if even explicit T::operator bool() const; is applicable in this case), if it returns false, the loop stops. expressionEach is any expression that evaluates at end of each iteration.
Equivalent of for()
{
expressionFirst
while ( expressionCheck )
{
statement to execute
expressionEach;
}
}
All expressions are optional, so you can use for(;;) - a "forever" loop.
Comma operator you use allows to sequence several expressions, only last one is returned as result. Thus it is called sequence operator. And that's why your loop is wrong.
And you have a typo in main function, which led you to print only the first element of array, no increment of i.
I tried to compile your code, and I got an error in this line:
for (int i=0;j<myNameSpace::d1;j++)
The variable j is undeclared. As you can note, you declared the variable i inside the for loop, but not j. Do you want to loop using i or j? ...Maybe it's i because inside the body of the loop you used it as first-dimension index?
So, maybe you meant this code?
for (int i = 0; i < myNameSpace::d1; i++)
std::cout << myNameSpace::array[i][1][1] << std::endl;
In addition, are you sure the loop inside doSomething does what you mean?
Or maybe you want to loop using three nested loops for each array dimension?
E.g.:
void doSomething(double (&array)[myNameSpace::d1][myNameSpace::d2][myNameSpace::d3])
{
for (int i = 0; i < myNameSpace::d1; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < myNameSpace::d2; j++) {
for (int k = 0; k < myNameSpace::d3; k++) {
array[i][j][k] = i + j + k + 1.0;
}
}
}
}
Note that in C++ raw arrays are passed by reference, so the &array syntax is unnecessary. Moreover, the compiler also ignores the raw array dimensions (myNameSpace::d1, etc.) for array parameters. Those may be good for documentation purposes though.

C++, return duplicate instances from an array to a string

Background to this: This is not homework, it's completely optional review for a basic c++ class. As I want to pass, I'm going through each example the best I can, This one I'm super stuck on, and have been for about three hours now.
Problem: Write a function to return a string composed of the most frequent lowercase letter found in each row of a 10 x 10 array of lowercase alphabetic chars in the range a through z.
If there is more than one most frequent character, use the one that come first alphabetically.
Use neither cin nor cout.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
string mostFrequent(char c[10][10]){
// this is the function I need to create
}
int main(){
char c[10][10] = {
'a','b','f','d','e','f','g','h','i','j',
'a','b','c','r','c','r','g','h','r','j',
'a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','o','o',
'z','w','p','d','e','f','g','h','i','j',
'o','d','o','d','o','b','o','d','o','d',
'a','l','l','d','e','f','f','h','l','j',
'a','b','c','d','i','f','g','h','i','j',
'a','b','z','v','z','v','g','g','v','z',
'a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','e',
'a','b','s','d','e','f','g','h','s','j',
};
cout << mostFrequent(c) << endl;
return 0;
}
So in research for this I found some material that allows me to count how many times a specific int or char would appear inside the array, but it doesn't quite suit the needs of the problem as it needs to return a string composed of the most frequent character. See below.
int myints[] = {10,20,30,30,20,10,10,20};
int mycount = std::count (myints, myints+8, 10);
Because it doesn't work though, I was thinking a for loop, to go row to row, I'll mostly likely need to save things into an array to count, but I'm not sure at all how to implement something like that. I even considered a caesar shift with an array, but I'm not sure where to go if that is the solution.
If I understood the task correctly, you have a matrix 10x10 and you have to create a string of length 10, where character at position i is the one that is most frequent among characters in the row i.
string mostFrequent(char c[10][10]) {
// The idea here is to find the most common character in each row and then append that character to the string
string s = "";
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) s += findMostFrequentCharacter(c[i]);
return s;
}
Now we just have to implement a function char findMostFrequentCharacter(char c). We are going to do that by counting all of the characters and picking the one that is most frequent (or it comes alphabetically before if there is more than one most frequent character):
char findMostFrequentCharacter(char c[10]) {
int counts[256]; // Assuming these are ASCII characters, we can have max 256 different values
// Fill it with zeroes (you can use memset to do that, but for clarity I'll write a for-loop
for (int i = 0; i < 256; i++) c[i] = 0;
// Do the actual counting
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) // For each character
counts[ c[i] ]++; // Increase it's count by 1, note that c[i] is going to have values between 65 (upper case A) and 122 (lower case z)
char mostFrequent = 0;
// Find the one that is most frequent
for (char ch = 'A'; ch <= 'z' ch++) // This will ensure that we iterate over all upper and lower case letters (+ some more but we don't care about it)
if (counts[ch] > counts[c]) c = ch; // Take the one that is more frequent, note that in case they have the same count nothing will happen which is what we want since we are iterating through characters in alphabetical order
return c;
}
I have written the code out of my head so I'm sorry if there are any compile errors.

C++ Add random characters into a string array

So I want to create 1000 words with a length of 5 random characters. In my main I have word[1000] but when I try to run this code, it gives me an error saying "Expression:string subscript out of range". I'm not sure why it does that because I thought string arrays were 2 dimensional? If anyone could tell me why my code is wrong I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
void createText(string w[], int seed) {
char ch;
srand(seed);
for(int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
for(int j = 0; j < 5; j++) {
ch = ('A' + rand() % 26);
w[i][j] = ch;
}
}
for(int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
cout << w[i];
}
cout << endl;
}
I suppose that the array w does not have 1000 elements, also remember that here you will get a copy of string w[]. Better would be passing a pointer to w (string* w), then You will have very clearly what is wrong. remember also that cout writes the string out untill it reaches a '\0' character, this also might be the cause. Quick session with gdb will help:
gdb program
...
run
bt full
should pinpoint Your problem. if it's some kind of IDE, learn how to debug in it. Valgrind or some other memcheck like visual leak detector or luke stackwalker will also show you some tips about bad initialization or unmentioned memory leaks.
If an array is bidimensional, you can't print its values like w[i]. You must print always keeping in mind that the array is bidimensional, which means that the output must be done like cout << w[i][j];
In addition, you're passing an array of strings as an argument, and what you're doing is add characters to every single position, which means that you won't actually have nothing but 1000 characters inserted into that string (because you actually added "one-char" strings), so you'll only put 200 words with a length of 5 characters each one. Insert strings directly, and you'll get your 1000 words, but first find a way to build strings with random characters.
Something like:
for(conditions){
for(conditions){
build a word
}
array[x][y] = string
}
I guess it is similar to what you intended to do