C# :: How To Correctly Use Counter Variable In WHILE Loop
Feb 20, 2014
After searching, it seems that I've finally arrived at the good old traditional "Random Number Game". I've been presented with solving this problem in the context of Visual C#.
I've solved the first part of the problem: Have the user enter a random number, display "Too high" or "Too Low" depending on the entry. If user guesses, let the user know. That part of the problem I was able to solve with only 3 IF statements. In it's current version, instead of using all IF statements, I saw where 3 test conditional weren't needed. (If it's not greater nor lesser it's equal or,.... "otherwise do this").
An enhancement to the problem ask that the user be notified of how many guesses it took to get the number correct. I reasoned that number of guesses could be translated to mean " number of iterations ".
I'm having trouble using the counter variable to track the iterations, then display the total iterations. I'm not seeing how to increment that value with each loop. I've basically reached two results no matter how I've used counter and written the while loop. The first one returns back to me "the guessed number". Example, if I guessed 10 times and the lucky number was 58, the display statement in the ELSE clause became: "Congrats. You guessed the number in 58 tries!".
The other result is what's returned by the code in it's current form. I think it'll be clearer for me to debug from this point then the previous. Here, I can see how I reach "Congrats. You guessed the number in 2 tries!". It's apparent that counter is being incremented by one regardless how many guesses the user makes. On the contrary, it's not so apparent to me how previously, the value returned by the counter variable at the end of the loop was actually the value for the random number generated and the user's entry (hence, the correct number) and NOT the total loop iterations.
Here's the code :
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
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Oct 14, 2014
I'm trying to write a small brute force application in C on Ubuntu 14.04.1 using Code::Blocks with gcc-4.8.2. It's nothing special and just for practice.The focus is on a parallel procedure that generates strings by use of OpenMP. Every time a string is generated, the counter variable should be incremented. At the end, regardless of whether the search string was matched or not, it outputs the correct number of all generated strings (counts).It works fine so far.Here is my source code example:
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <omp.h>
/* Global variables */
const char Literals[] = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
const int NLiterals = sizeof( Literals ) - 1; // NLiterals = 26 Bytes.
const char SearchString[] = "test"; // I.e. until 'test' there are 355414 counts.
char MatchString[16];
}
[code]...
This should speed up the process of generating strings. But if I do so, always when the program has a match the number of counted strings is wrong. Here are some possible "wrong" outputs: Code: Match: 'test'! 40710 tries. <-- number of tries (counts) is wrong! or Code: Match: 'test'! 40375 tries. <-- number of tries (counts) is wrong! But if the program doesn't have a match (i.e. when I change SearchString to something like the following line), then the number of counts is correct: Code: const char SearchString[] = "test0"; The only thing I have to do before, is to change the follow line from:
Code:
printf( "
No match! %u tries.
", Count / 8 ); to Code: printf( "
No match! %u tries.
", Count );
But also it can happen that there is no output. Like an infinite or endless loop. How can I improve the source code in order that the correct number of counts is always displayed and what can be the reason for the endless loops time after time? Both issues appears only by the use of Code: #pragma omp for schedule( dynamic ).
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4 8 12
here my code tell me if correct
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#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;
int main () {
int x, double, triple;
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#include <math.h>
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int choice;
int roomchoice;
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int main(){
int value;
cin >> value;
Counter myCounter(value);
for (int i = 1; i <= MAXLOOP; i++) {
myCounter.increment();
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Code:
Private Sub ListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles lstBox.SelectedIndexChanged
Dim wins As String = lstBox.SelectedIndex
Dim foundwins As Boolean = False
Dim i As Integer = -1
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";
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Code:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<ctype.h>
#define PI 3.1416
void main(void) {
char choice;
float r, area;
[Code] ....
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Code:
printf("Continue? Y/N:");
fflush(stdin);
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Code:
#include <stdio.h>
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for (int raw1=0;raw1<4;raw1++){
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Enter accreted mass increment in solar masses
";
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cout << "
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The fitness value is given by fitness(x,y,z) (code line 12~19).
We need to find out, when the particle moves around randomly, what is the highest possible fitness value.
To solve this, below code is used, and it produces correct result.
#define DIMENSION 3
#define MAXX 4
#define MINX 0
#define MESHsize 1
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
float maxValue = 0.0;
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The output of the code:
[ fitness(0,0,0) = 0] [ fitness(0,0,1) = 1] [ fitness(0,0,2) = 4] [ fitness(0,0,3) = 9]
[ fitness(0,1,0) = 1] [ fitness(0,1,1) = 2] [ fitness(0,1,2) = 5] [ fitness(0,1,3) = 10]
[ fitness(0,2,0) = 4] [ fitness(0,2,1) = 5] [ fitness(0,2,2) = 8] [ fitness(0,2,3) = 13]
[ fitness(0,3,0) = 9] [ fitness(0,3,1) = 10] [ fitness(0,3,2) = 13] [ fitness(0,3,3) = 18]
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Question: Above code works for 3-dimensional space. How to generalize the code, so that it works also for N-dimensional space, where N is an arbitrary integer?
( Note: possibly N = 30 )
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...
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