1. RE: contest questions
Robert Craig wrote:
>
> > For the contests, what is "standard input?"
>
> It's file number 0.
> i.e. your program should read from file 0,
> using for example, getc(0) or gets(0),
Don't I have to do a
fn = open(thefile,"r")
and then use fn for input:
nextLine = gets(fn)
Why would I hardcode the '0'?
nextLine = gets(0)
> It should be possible to run your program
> from a command line, such as:
>
> ex yourprog < english.txt > coded.txt
Can I allow the user to just do this:
ex yourprog words
and then yourprog loads up words & ".txt" or something?
> Without the "<" on the command-line
> it would be, but I'm not going to test it that way.
So, "<" becomes standard input?!
Like when I do
nextLine = gets(0)
it's going to read from the file after the "<"?
OIC. So the first file is file 0 and the second is file 1...?
> I'm not sure what you are driving at,
> but the cipher line could be any random shuffling
> of the letters A to Z, with no duplicate letters.
That's what I was driving at... thanks.
2. RE: contest questions
Robert Craig wrote:
>
> It should be possible to run your program
> from a command line, such as:
>
> ex yourprog < english.txt > coded.txt
This isn't working for me in Win2K. When I use that command line, I
should be able to read english.txt with just gets(0), right?
