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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Need help for a Calculator program
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genx54321@hotmail.com (Jim) writes:

> ive been reading that online book
> http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/adacraft/
> 
> 
> it tell you how to program a calculator throughout the book, starting
> with basic adding and then going on to operator procedence(well i
> havent reached this stage yet) but the second part of the calculator
> program (chapter  ) you enter an expression eg 1 + 2 + 3 * 4.  but you
> have to end the expression with a full stop.  Is there a way where you
> dont have to enter a full stop.
> 
> the program itself is in the link:
> http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/adacraft/ch03.htm#3.8
> 
> 
> th full stop is used for a condition, if you put a full stop there it
> will end a loop for 'getting' operators and then the program will
> continue with calculating the expression.
> 
> could someone have a look at it for me plz ?

This sounds like homework; please say "it's not homework" if it isn't
:).

I'm not clear what you are asking for. I guess "full stop" means "hit
the return key" or "generate end of line" or something. Why do you
want to get rid of that?

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-- Stephe