Re: an infinate loop

["C. Bauman" <cbauman@impulse.net>]

If you consider that detecting end-of-line is to be equivalent to detecting
a space character, I think you'll find that loop is inappropriately placed.
Since you don't specify how the infinite loop manifests itself, I can't
guarantee this will fix it, but it should help if I point out that you only
need one loop for this.  Most of what you are doing with loops can be
handled in the case statement.

i.e. in pseudo code:

main loop
  exit on eof
  if eol then letter = ' ' else letter = get(char)
  case letter
    'A'..'z'   -  update wordlength
    ' '         -  update wordcount of wordlength, reset wordlegnth
    '.','?','!' -  output sentence data, reset wordcounts, reset wordlength
  end case
end loop
if sentence not terminated correctly, output remaining sentence data.

I'm not sure how much Ada programming you've had, but using arrays and
subprocedures can reduce the typing and keep the listing readable.

-CB


"Beau" <beau@hiwaay.net> wrote in message
news:tks6i2llqcla15@corp.supernews.com...
> Hey I am in an infinate loop and don't understand why. here is my problem
to
> understan exactly what is going down:
> assume that a set of sentences is to be processed. Each sentence consists
of
> a sequence of words, seperated by one or more blank spaces. Write a
program
> that will read these sentences and count the number of words that have one
> letter, two letter, and so on, up to ten letters.
> It was working until I put in a loop to catch the end of line because if
the
> sentence was more than a line, then the words on the end would be counted
> together. now the program does the first line perfect and then falls into
> the "never-ending" loop. enclosed is the adb file and the data file. put
the
> file anywhere just type the path in when asked.

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