Need pascal help, fast :| (file reading);

serengeor · Post by **serengeor** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 8:43 pm

So I have a file which contains lets say text ant numbers.

Apples 5 6 1 20 18
tomatoes 8 3 4 2 3

Also what I know that this text will occupy only 15 chars, not more not less.(so apples occupies 6 chars and after that there are 9 spaces, but you cant see them because of html thingie in the forum, so visualize

)

So how would I read those 15 chars of text into a string and then read the numbers?

I know how to read numbers when there are just numbers in file, but now what I have to do is read text assign it to a variable and also get all the numbers after the text.
There aren't many tutorials for pascal(well there are, but they all lack of sth.).
I've looked trough bunch of the tutorials, still no clue how to do this.

And yes, I must do this in pascal

This is not my homework, I'm trying to do an exam assignment from the last year.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 8:55 pm

too bad i don't know pascal. hopefully someone here can help you. good luck.

serengeor · Post by **serengeor** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 9:26 pm

ok figured it out, that read function reads the whole line into my string, so instead i have to read the string char by char.
I won't post the code here since the variables and comments are in my language, but if anyone needs help regards this question, ask

.

kazymjir · Post by **kazymjir** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 1:48 am

arhhwhhh, i thought that i will never see this language after they fired me school... BUT I SEE THIS AGAIN

btw, i dunno, really dunno why in schools they are using pascal to learning programming. i thought that only Poland have only stupid education system, but i see this is worldwide

serengeor · Post by **serengeor** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 6:27 am

pascal is not so bad at the beginning, but when it comes to some complicated tasks it's like a pain in the a**.

Brainsaw · Post by **Brainsaw** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 6:48 am

Imho Pascal is a good language for learning programming. You can just read the code, and it's definetely better than any Basic I know (I learnt programming with Basic 2.0, just in case anyone remembers

). And I have used Borland Deplhi (aka "Pascal with a good IDE") in a big german company until about three years ago. And if I ever get asked which language to choose if you were planning a small program that does database stuff I would recommend Delphi. Never seen anything else that makes writing normal Windows applications easier (as long as you don't have any fancy stuff besides acessing a database

).

serengeor · Post by **serengeor** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 11:03 am

Today I participated in pascal competition (olimpiad, if thats the right word in english), having 4 hours of time, I could only solve 2 out of 3 tasks

.

Now I feel, kind of smacked with a brick in the head.

kazymjir · Post by **kazymjir** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 3:37 pm

Brainsaw wrote:I learnt programming with Basic 2.0, just in case anyone remembers

Yeah!
It was also my first language, I stared learning it when I was 9 on my commodore

Very funny history btw. I've been playing games when my joystick crashed (power gaming

). I found box of my C64, but cannot find any other joystick. Instead, I found programming book.
I enjoyed programming much more than games.
And now, thanks to that book, today I am programmer

Here's that book, I still have it :
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4462/dsc01091zz.jpg
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/2086/dsc01090ex.jpg

Backing to the learning programming subject, I think C++ should be much much better.
I remember when I was in high school, everybody feel pain in ass using pascal. When they switched to C++, there was much more pain due to that in C++ is everything different that they learned in pascal.
But after about month they enjoyed C++ much more than pascal before.

Pascal is very very very old language. It's something that like you want to learn to exam for driving license, learning driving on old Ford