Thread overview
unexpected characters
Apr 09, 2007
Paul
Apr 10, 2007
Derek Parnell
Apr 10, 2007
Paul
April 09, 2007
Hello, I am writing a program to read in a csv text file.

The program works fine for over 1411 iterations then crashes. Looking in the debugger, there appears to be additional characters in the front of the expected input, I have no ideal where there coming from, as they do not appear in the input file. (The file starts with the date, see input example file attached)

Please find attached my program, and the relevent section of the input file.  The following post, will include screens shots of what im seeing in my debugger.

Kind regards

Paul
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April 10, 2007
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 12:10:09 +0000 (UTC), Paul wrote:

> Hello, I am writing a program to read in a csv text file.

Hi Paul,
Sorry to butt in here, but I'm keen to promote the D programming language,
as it is makes it easier to write safer programs. I've made a quick attempt
to recode your program in D. Please have a look if you like ...

  http://www.users.bigpond.com/ddparnell/procon.d

However, please ignore this post if you feel it is inappropriate.

-- 
Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
"Justice for David Hicks!"
10/04/2007 5:37:30 PM
April 10, 2007
Hi Derek, thanks for your input.  However ive never looked at the D language, and at present its been a while since ive programmed in 'C'.  As you can see im having a few difficulites with it.

Ill keep to 'C' for the moment ;)

Thanks for your input.

Paul