Re: Newbie questions (conditional operator, cin >> n...)

From:
 James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:39:12 -0000
Message-ID:
<1183192752.985642.301160@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 29, 12:42 pm, "Army1987" <please....@for.it> wrote:

"Erik Wikstr=F6m" <Erik-wikst...@telia.com> ha scritto nel messaggionews:=

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On 2007-06-28 16:29, Army1987 wrote:

I am a newbie to C++ (altough I already know some C). I've tried to
implement the TPK algorithm.


[snip code]

If something which can't be interpreted as a double is
input, std::cin >> array[i] leaves array[i] uninitialized,
and doesn't discard garbage. How can I check if it
succeeds? Since the cascading style can be used, I guess
std::cin >> array[i] evalues to std::cin itself, so I guess
using it in the controlling expression of an if statement
doesn't help. I could initialize all the elements of the
array to some strange value (eg. HUGE_VAL) and check if it
was unchanged, but is there a more elegant way?


The FAQ might help you:
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/input-output.html#faq-15.3


Now I have this:

#include <iostream>
#include <ostream>
#include <cmath>
#include <limits>

const int size = 11;
const double max = 400.0;
double f(const double& t);

int main(void)
{
    double array[size];
    for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i)
    while (!(std::cin >> array[i])) {
        std::cerr << "Please insert a number: " << std::flush;
        std::cin.clear();
        std::cin.ignore(std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n'=

);

    }
    for (int i = size - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
    double y = f(array[i]);
    std::cout << i + 1 << '\t';
    if (y > max)
        std::cout << "TOO LARGE\n";
    else
        std::cout << y << '\n';
    }
    return 0;
}

double f(const double& t)
{
    return std::sqrt(std::fabs(t)) + 5.0 * t * t * t;

}

If I give the eof signal, the error is cleared and the program goes
on. That would cause an endless loop if the input is redirected to
a file. What are the <iostream> C++ equivalents of feof() and
ferror()?


There is no real direct equivalent. Basically, once input has
failed, you can more or less test why:

    if ( stream.bad() ) {
        // Hard error...
    } else if ( ! stream.eof() ) {
        // Format error...
    } else {
        // End of file has been seen (but they might
        // also be a format error).
    }

Note that this checking should only be done once input has
failed, i.e. if stream.fail() is true (or if conversion to void*
yields a null pointer, or if ! returns true).

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