• jicman (47/47) Mar 08 2005 I will enlighten you all with this very complicated piece of d code:
• Lukas Pinkowski (9/33) Mar 08 2005 This i hides the other int i; thus, when Month is Jan, i is 0, for Feb i...
• Regan Heath (6/25) Mar 09 2005 Do we want an error for this? (I think I do)

jicman <jicman_member pathlink.com> writes:

I will enlighten you all with this very complicated piece of d code:

import std.stdio;
import std.string;
char[] TurnToMonDigit(char[] mon)
{
char[] mm;
int i;
static char [3][12] sMon = ["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun",
"Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"];
for (int i=0;i<sMon.length;i++)
{
if(std.string.cmp(sMon[i],mon) == 0)
{
writef(sMon[i] ~ " " ~ mon ~ " ");
writef(i);
writef(" ");
break;
}
}
if(i > 11)
{
writefln("*** Bad Date found: " ~ mon ~ " ***");
return(null);
}
mm = std.string.toString(i+1);
mm = std.string.zfill(mm,2);
writef(mm ~ "\n");
return(mm);
}
void main (char[][] args)
{
char[] d;
d = TurnToMonDigit("Jan");
d = TurnToMonDigit("Feb");
d = TurnToMonDigit("Nov");
d = TurnToMonDigit("Dec");
}

Go ahead and compile it. :-) Then run it. :-) I get:

18:47:54.95>test
Jan Jan 0 01
Feb Feb 1 01
Nov Nov 10 01
Dec Dec 11 01

Huh?! :-|  Isn't i suppose to be i+1?  This is probably hidden in one of d's
technical writings, but I missed it.  Anyone care to explain it?

thanks.

josé

Lukas Pinkowski <Lukas.Pinkowski web.de> writes:

jicman wrote:
 import std.stdio;
 import std.string;
 char[] TurnToMonDigit(char[] mon)
 {
 char[] mm;
 int i;

This i is initialized to 0.

 static char [3][12] sMon = ["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun",
 "Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"];
 for (int i=0;i<sMon.length;i++)
 {
 if(std.string.cmp(sMon[i],mon) == 0)
 {
 writef(sMon[i] ~ " " ~ mon ~ " ");
 writef(i);


This i hides the other int i; thus, when Month is Jan, i is 0, for Feb it's
1 a.s.o

 writef(" ");
 break;
 }
 }

Here the scope of the for(int i) is over, now we have the other i, which was
intialized to 0.

 if(i > 11)
 {
 writefln("*** Bad Date found: " ~ mon ~ " ***");
 return(null);
 }
 mm = std.string.toString(i+1);

mm will be always "1", as i is initialized to 0, and you add 1 to it ;-)


Greetings,

Lukas

"Regan Heath" <regan netwin.co.nz> writes:

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 01:35:15 +0100, Lukas Pinkowski  
<Lukas.Pinkowski web.de> wrote:
 jicman wrote:
 import std.stdio;
 import std.string;
 char[] TurnToMonDigit(char[] mon)
 {
 char[] mm;
 int i;

 This i is initialized to 0.

 static char [3][12] sMon = ["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun",
 "Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"];
 for (int i=0;i<sMon.length;i++)
 {
 if(std.string.cmp(sMon[i],mon) == 0)
 {
 writef(sMon[i] ~ " " ~ mon ~ " ");
 writef(i);


 This i hides the other int i; thus, when Month is Jan, i is 0, for Feb  
 it's
 1 a.s.o

Do we want an error for this? (I think I do)
Can we get an error for this?
Walter?

Regan