From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: put a character back to the input stream
Date: 1999/10/25
Date: 1999-10-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1nf4$41j$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3811B324.D0CC49A3@hotmail.com
In article <3811B324.D0CC49A3@hotmail.com>,
sy278@is9.nyu.edu wrote:
> which i read a character each time
> "name + 342"
> when i found a digit, i know the whole thing's gonna be a number, so i
> put the read digit back, then read the whole number. the same thing
> happens for the string too. so i need a function to put back the
> current read character back to avoid lose the first character.
It sounds like you are doing lexical analysis on a stream of characters.
That's exactly what OpenToken was created to do. It will handle
all the minutia about reading, analyzing, and buffering characters for
you. Unless this is a homework assignment, I encourage you to check it
out at http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/OpenToken/OpenToken.html
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1999-10-23 0:00 put a character back to the input stream Frank Shixiang Yan
1999-10-23 0:00 ` nabbasi
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
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