C++ nightmare

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:15 pm

This is why it's best to stick to one language at a time.

"why won't this dang thing compile!"

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Cold Drink · Post by **Cold Drink** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:35 pm

So you too are tainted

Try and purge all that VB from your mind

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Death · Post by **Death** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:42 am

O M G. Imagine trying to debug that? I can just see it now:

42 ERRORS

WHERE?!!!! LOL

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 1:00 am

Actually I'm trying to debug it now but a different issue, it compiles but is ingoring some characters when reading a file.

Been trying to debug it for at least an hour... must go to bed... must debug... ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Once this program is complete I'll be able to keep a real time status of sympatico's downtime.

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wtd · Post by **wtd** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:28 pm

And you're using char arrays with C++. That's just asking for buffer overflows.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:36 pm

It's the only way though in this case, since I have to read from files and store it in chars. As long as a host in the file does not get bigger than 10000 bytes I should be fine.

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wtd · Post by **wtd** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:13 pm

Why not just read into a std::string?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:00 pm

I would but most functions I'm used to need chars. Like nearly all string handling functions. or sockets for example, when you specify the host, it needs a char. Though I wish C++ was like php, where you can pass anything and it works, no data types, and no limits. I can store the whole US, Canada and Europe constititions in a single variable if I wanted to.

(that's assuming the server has the memory/swap space)

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wtd · Post by **wtd** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:56 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: I would but most functions I'm used to need chars. Like nearly all string handling functions. or sockets for example, when you specify the host, it needs a char. Though I wish C++ was like php, where you can pass anything and it works, no data types, and no limits. I can store the whole US, Canada and Europe constititions in a single variable if I wanted to. (that's assuming the server has the memory/swap space)

Get used to other functions, and when you need char-array strings, just use the c_str member function of the std::string class.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:59 pm

I'll have to look into that, anything to avoid buffer overflows is good. Not sure where to start though, got any tutorials that would help? Since this is basically like learning a new language as all the functions are different.

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