Re: Code Help

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:43:06 -0500
Message-ID:
<fq4p1q$dfr$1@news.datemas.de>
aaronWbryant@gmail.com wrote:

I need some coding help. It keeps crashing and is not printing
anything to the screen. I have no idea what to fix. Any help is
greatly appreciated.


You need to learn to use a "debugger". It's a program that lets
you execute _your_ program statement by statement, also allowing
you to examine the values of all variables and the call stack.
That's the most important tool in the hands of a programmer.

So far I've only found one place where you make a serious mistake:

[..]
MyString :: MyString()
{
size = 0;
capacity = 1;


Does 'capacity' ever change?

data = new char[capacity];
data[0] = '\0';
}

MyString :: MyString(char * s)
{
size = strlen(s);
capacity = 1;


'1'? Really? That's going to be sufficient?

data = new char[capacity];
while (size >= capacity)
{
grow();
}
strcpy(data, s);
data[size + 1] = '\0';
}

MyString :: MyString (const MyString& s)
{
size = s.size;
capacity = 1;


Again, 1?

data = new char[capacity];
while (size >= capacity)
{
grow();


Ok, let's see the 'grow'...

}

strcpy(data, s.data);
data[size + 1] = '\0';
}

MyString :: ~MyString()
{
delete []data;
}

MyString MyString :: operator =(const MyString& s)
{
delete [] data;

size = s.size;
capacity = 1;


One?

data = new char[capacity];
while (size >= capacity)
{
grow();
}

strcpy(data, s.data);
data[size + 1] = '\0';
return *this;
}
[...]

void MyString :: grow()
{
char *temp;
temp = data;
data = new char[capacity];


OK, so you attempt to allocate another character here.
Why? How does the string *grow*? What should happen
to 'capacity'?

strcpy(data, temp);
data[size] = '\0';
delete [] temp;
}

int MyString :: length () const
{
return size;
}

ostream& operator<< (ostream& out, MyString& m)
{
 out << m.data << endl;
 return out;
}


V
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