Calculating next date in Turbo Pascal [closed] - turbo-pascal

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program date;
uses wincrt;
var
m,ch,ch1,ch2,ch3: string ;
mois,j,a,b: integer ;
begin
write('a');read(a);
write('j');read(j);
write('mois');read(mois);
case mois of
1,3,5,7,8,10: if j<31 then
begin
b:=j+1;
m:=str(b,ch)+'/'+str(mois,ch2)+'/'+str(a,ch3);
else if j=31then
b:=1;
s:=mois+1;
m:=concat(str(b,ch),'/',str(s,ch2),'/',str(a,ch3));
end
else m:='erreur';
4,6,9,11:if j<30 then
begin
b:=j+1;
m:=concat(str(b,ch),'/',str(mois,ch2),'/',str(a,ch3));
end
else j=30 then
begin
b:=1;
s:=mois+1;
m:=concat(str(b,ch),'/',str(mois,ch2),'/',str(a,ch3));
end
else m:='erreur';
2:if j<28 then
begin
b:=j+1;
m:=concat(str(b,ch),'/',str(mois,ch2),'/',str(a,ch3));
end
else if j=28 then
begin
b:=1;
m:=concat(str(b,ch),'/',str(mois,ch2,'/',str(a,ch3));
end
else if((a mod 4=0)AND (a mod 100<>0)) or ((a mod 100=0)and(a mod 400=0)) then
if j<29 then
begin
b:=j+1;
m:=concat(str(b,ch),'/',str(mois,ch2,'/',str(a,ch3));
end
else if j=29 then
begin
b:=1;
m:=concat(str(b,ch),'/',str(mois,ch2,'/',str(a,ch3));
end
else m:='erreur';
12:if j<31 then
begin
b:=j+1;
m:=concat(str(b,ch),'/',str(mois,ch2,'/',str(a,ch3));
end
else if j=31 then
begin
b:=1;
s:=a+1;
m:=concat(str(b,ch),'/',str(mois,ch2,'/',str(s,ch3));
end;
writeln(m);
end.
this is my program i hope you be able to help me

It may be a good idea to indent the code according to the begin/end-blocks. This make it very easy to spot unpaired begin/end statements.
m:=str(b,ch)+'/'+str(mois,ch2)+'/'+str(a,ch3);
It is a long time since i did something with Turbo Pascal, but if i remember correctly, str is a procedure. So it does not return anything.
In order to simplify your program, it may be a good idea, to only calculate the new variables "b", "mois" and "a" inside the case block. And then do the transformation to a string once after the case-block.
str(b, ch);
str(mois, ch2);
str(a, ch3);
m := ch + '/' + ch2 + '/' + ch3;

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Ada - Days of the week

I'm supposed to make a subprogram that has exactly one parameter of type Integer. And this Integer represents a day of the week where 1 is monday, 2 is tuesday etc...
The subprogram should return how many days there's left until Saturday.
This is my approach (I'm not supposed to use arrays):
with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
with Ada.Integer_Text_IO; use Ada.Integer_Text_IO;
procedure Test3 is
function Week (Days : in Integer) return Integer is
begin
if Days = 1 then
return 5;
elsif Days = 2 then
return 4;
elsif Days = 3 then
return 3;
elsif Days = 4 then
return 2;
elsif Days = 5 then
return 1;
elsif Days = 6 then
return 7;
elsif Days = 7 then
return 6;
end if;
end Week;
Days : Integer;
begin
Put("What day is it: ");
Get(Days);
if Days < 0 or Days > 7 then
Put_Line("Wrong Value");
end if;
Put("It's ");
Put(Week(Days), Width => 1);
Put(" days until Saturday.");
end Test3;
Even though my program works I have two problems. Do you see the amount of "elsifs", can this not be solved in any other way? I don't like how my program looks.
Secondly,
How am I supposed to make an if statement where if Days < 0 or Days > 7 will raise an error. As you can see I have attempted to this in my main program but it won't work since I have
"Get(Days);" before this statement and my subprogram won't recognize my if statement? Should I put my if statement in my subprogram instead?
Any help is appreciated.
With respect to raising error, how about
if Days not in 1 .. 7 then
Put_Line("Wrong Value");
raise Contrain_Error with "Days is out of range, " & Days'Image;
else
-- normal processing
end if;
Regarding the question of what to do with invalid Days, that is for you to decide, and then you code the subprogram accordingly. I think the most natural, for Ada, would be to put the check in the subprogram and raise Constraint_Error if it fails.
As Simon Wright said, you must decide and specify (and describe in comments) how the week-days are numbered. Otherwise no-one can check your code.
Once you have clearly decided and described those things, for yourself and for any reader of the program, you can have a closer look at your if-then-else nest and see how systematically the return value depends on the input value. Maybe there is a simple formula that can handle most cases, or perhaps all cases with valid input? That would let you reduce the number of if-then-elses.
It appears you allow day numbers in 1 .. 7. You can state this directly
subtype Day_Number is Integer range 1 .. 7;
function Days_Till_Saturday (Day : in Day_Number) return Day_Number;
You can then omit the check on the input value; passing an invalid value to the function will raise Constraint_Error, which you can handle to report the error.
Regarding the long chain of elsifs, you can use a case statement:
case Day is
when 1 =>
return 5;
but for this problem it might be clearer to use arithmetic:
Result : constant Integer := 6 - Day;
begin
if Result not in Day_Number then
return Result + Day_Number'Last;
end if;
return Result;

Conditional strings in plsql like sprintf

Writing the below code gives me error saying:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
PLS-00382: expression is of wrong type:
Code:
if ( l_vol = 0 )
then
l_cndtn_string := 'l_wgt > l_wgt_limit';
else
l_cndtn_string := '(l_wgt > l_wgt_limit) and (l_vol > l_vol_limit)';
end if;
if ( l_cndtn_string )
then
l_isis_task := 'PO';
else
l_isis_task := 'TO';
end if;
If statement evaluates a boolean expression. In your example
if ( l_cndtn_string )
l_cndtn_string is not a boolean expression but a character expression and there is no implicit cast between them.
Please help yourself and check Expressions too.
I don't know what is your logic but the following example shows you one way to convert character expression into boolean expression:
if l_cndtn_string is not null -- a boolean expression
then
null;
else
null;
end if;
You want dynamic condition build. In plsql,like other compiled languages, it hard to do.
Try like this:
if ( l_vol = 0 )
then
if(l_wgt > l_wgt_limit) then
l_isis_task := 'PO';
end if;
else
if(l_wgt > l_wgt_limit and l_vol > l_vol_limit) then
l_isis_task := 'TO';
end if;
end if;
After IF boolean expression is expected, not a string - that's why you're getting PLS-00382 error. You can of course try to dynamically evaluate your expression using dynamic sql, but in fact what you want is as simple as:
if ( l_wgt > l_wgt_limit and ( l_vol = 0 or l_vol > l_vol_limit ) )
then
l_isis_task := 'PO';
else
l_isis_task := 'TO';
end if;
Oh, only after reading the other answers I realised what this question was about. I decided to keep also my original answer as the point about character expression in if-statement is still correct.
The other answers are correct that buiding a logic based on string evaluation with dynamic PL/SQL is not a good idea in general. They also present correct solutions, but IMHO even better approach exists.
Usually when I have multiple conditions in PL/SQL I give the conditions a name. Please see the example below that illustrates the technique. The names make the code self-documenting and is a huge improvement in code readability as very often the condition now reads as human language.
declare
v_volume number := 0;
v_weight number := 1;
v_weight_limit constant number := 10;
v_volume_limit constant number := 10;
v_has_volume constant boolean := v_volume > 0;
v_exceed_weight_limit constant boolean := v_weight > v_weight_limit;
v_exceed_volume_limit constant boolean := v_volume > v_volume_limit;
begin
-- no guarantee the logic is the same than in question
-- but just illustrates the coding style
if v_has_volume
and v_exceed_weight_limit
and v_exceed_volume_limit
then
null; -- something
else
null; -- something else
end if;
end;
/

Ada Text_IO Put printing out after Get

I am trying to get a character input from the user in this format:
Player 1: a
This is my code:
Ada.Text_IO.Put("Player"&Integer'Image(board.turn)&": ");
Ada.Text_IO.Get(Item => move);
Now, when I run my program this is what happens:
a
Player 1:
For some odd reason, the GET is appearing before the PUT... I tried flipping their positions and it still occurs the same way.
I recently upgraded my AdaCore GNAT from 2012 to 2014 and I didn't have this issue in 2012...
Am I missing something?
Please help!
These are my with/use if you need them:
with Ada.Text_IO, Ada.Characters.Handling;
with Ada.Exceptions; use Ada.Exceptions;
USE Ada, Ada.Text_Io;
NEW
Here is more code... Don't worry about the AI stuff...
Full code:
PROCEDURE Main IS
PACKAGE board is new connectfour;
USE board;
begin
PUT(" ********** CONNECT-FOUR *********"); Put_Line("");
AI.start;
while (not board.isFull) loop
if AIwin = true then goto Win; end if;
Put_Line(""); DELAY 0.5;
Put("Player"&Integer'Image(board.turn)&": ");
Get(move);
if move='0' then goto Quit; end if;
Put_Line("");
if board.Move(move) = true then goto Win; end if;
board.print; DELAY 0.5;
AI.print;
end loop;
<<Win>>
Put_Line("");
Put_Line("PLAYER"&Integer'Image(board.turn)&" IS THE WINNER!");
<<Quit>>
AI.stop;
Put_Line("");
if move='0' then
Put_Line("PLAYER"&Integer'Image(board.turn)&" HAS FORFEIT!");
if board.turn = 1 then
Put_Line("PLAYER 2 IS THE WINNER!");
else
Put_Line("PLAYER 1 IS THE WINNER BY DEFAULT!");
end if;
end if;
end Main;
The standard output may be being buffered. Try
Ada.Text_IO.Put("Player"&Integer'Image(board.turn)&": “);
Ada.Text_IO.Flush;
Ada.Text_IO.Get(Item => move);
(later)
Well, that wasn’t the answer. I just tried
with Ada.Text_IO;
procedure Borovez is
Move : Character;
begin
Ada.Text_IO.Put ("Player" & Integer'Image (42) & ": ");
-- Ada.Text_IO.Flush;
Ada.Text_IO.Get (Item => Move);
end Borovez;
on GNAT GPL 2014/Windows 7 and it worked exactly as expected.
You’re going to need to edit your question to include a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example.

Ada actual for "S" must be a variable

So here is a piece of my body file. I am getting the error "words.adb:75:42: actual for "S" must be a variable".
procedure Remove_Character(S : in out Ustring; C : in Character; Successful : out Boolean) is
begin
for I in 1..length(S) loop
if Element(S, I) = C then
Delete(S, I, I);
Successful := true;
return;
end if;
end loop;
Successful := false;
end Remove_Character;
function Is_Subset(Subset : Ustring; S : Ustring) return Boolean is
Could_Remove : Boolean;
begin
for I in 1..length(Subset) loop
Remove_Character(S , Element(Subset, I), Could_Remove);
if Could_Remove = false then
return false;
end if;
end loop;
return True;
end Is_Subset;
I understand where my error is coming from. Remove_Character uses S : in out Ustring while function Is_Subset uses S : in Ustring.
My question is how do I change the variable from Remove_Character into only an in Ustring?
Sorry if this is a tad jumbled, I'm fairly new to both programming and the site.
You can't, at least not directly.
I don't know what a UString is, but I presume the Delete procedure modifies it. If you changed the declaration of S in Remove_Character to S: in Ustring, you'd presumably get an error on the call to Delete.
The simplest approach I can think of would be to make a copy of S in Is_Subset:
Copy_Of_S: UString := S;
and then pass the (modifiable) copy to Remove_Character.
By "simplest", I mean it makes the smallest change to your existing code. But you should probably consider reorganizing it. Determining whether one UString is a subset of another by modifying one of the strings doesn't seem like the best approach; I'm sure there's a more efficient way to do it.
A minor and irrelevant point: this:
if Could_Remove = false then
is better written as:
if not Could_Remove then

Is it the good marker or not Ada95? [closed]

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Closed 9 years ago.
Consider the following controller (protected object) in Ada95 to adapt that a Task calls Waiting() this one its not going to be put on waiting if the waiting marker (Marker) corresponds already on the marker of selection (Selecting_Marker) only naturally before it's initialization:
protected type Controller is
entry Waiting(Marker : in Marker_Type);
procedure WakeUp(Marker : in Marker_Type);
private
Tentative_Count : Natural := 0;
Selecting_Marker : Marker_Type;
end Controller;
protected body Controller is
entry Waiting (Marker : in Marker_Type) when Tentative_Count > 0 is
begin
Tentative_Count := Tentative_Count - 1;
if Selecting_Marker /= Marker then
requeue Waiting;
end if;
end Waiting;
procedure WakeUp (Marker : in Marker_Type) is
begin
Selecting_Marker := Marker;
Tentative_Count := Waiting'Count;
end WakeUp;
end Controller;
The object is to alter the behavior of the protected object, likely the following line:
entry Waiting (Marker : in Marker_Type) when Tentative_Count > 0 is
I'm not well-versed in protected objects, so won't offer any more than that except to say you'd probably be better off a) rereading the book's chapter on protected objects; and b) understanding what the objective of the code is and what the teacher/book is asking.
Part b is especially important, as in real life you need to be able to translate specifications into an implementation; and oftentimes the exact-wording is at odds with the examples and/or the example/reasoning.
Additional resources:
Ada 95 Rationale: II.9 Protected Types
Ada 95 Rationale: 9.1 Protected Types

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