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Simmons (2 posts) Bio

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Thu 15 Jan 2004 05:10 PM (UTC)

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Can anybody please help me solve this problem..

While compiling the code I get an error which reads "Missing terminating ' character".
The error line on the source code is like this

const char SEPARATOR = '^M'; // Control character (Return)

I tried changing '^M' with '\013' still it gives same the error message

My environment is as follows

Linux version 2.4.9-e.24smp
gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-118.7.2)) #1 SMP Tue May 27 16:07:39 EDT 2003

thanks
Simmons

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Posted by

David Haley USA (3,881 posts) Bio

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Reply #1 on Thu 15 Jan 2004 07:48 PM (UTC)

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The reason this is happening is that a character can only be of length one, and ^M is of length two.

What exactly is this a separator for? If you're replacing with \013, do you mean \n perhaps?

David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (23,173 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

Date Reply #2 on Thu 15 Jan 2004 08:16 PM (UTC)

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I tried this:


int main (void)
  {
  const char SEPARATOR = '\013';
  return 0;
  }

That did not give an error, however octal 13 is not a normal 'return'. As Ksilyan says, you probably want \n for a newline or \r for a carriage return.

In fact \013 is a vertical tab character, which you could represent as \v.

I would be cautious that the ^M you are showing is actually a carriage-return introduced when you copied a file from Windows to Linux. You may need to run it through some sort of return-stripper. One approach would be to use your text editor to remove all of them. There is also a dos2unix program available for download from this site. Alternatively, use "text" (ascii) mode when you ftp the file from Windows to Linux.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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Posted by

Simmons (2 posts) Bio

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Reply #3 on Thu 15 Jan 2004 11:46 PM (UTC)

Amended on Thu 15 Jan 2004 11:49 PM (UTC) by Simmons

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Thanks for the responses......

But I'm still not able to do away with the error message (even with trying with \n or \r). My program requires to parse a message which has got these characters(^M, is a literal control character, like you would get in emacs by
typing C-qC-M ) in it. (The message generation is not in our control).

Is it has got something to do with the environment (I mean the gcc)
Linux version 2.4.9-e.24smp
gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-118.7.2)) #1 SMP

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Posted by David Haley USA (3,881 posts) Bio

Date Reply #4 on Thu 15 Jan 2004 11:56 PM (UTC)

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\n or \r are also "literal control characters" in this case. It seems that in this case you may want to be using \r, not \n.

I tried out what Nick did as well and got no trouble. The line:

const char separator = '\n';

gives me no trouble at all.

Maybe you can just do:

#define SEPARATOR '\n'

#define SEPARATOR "\n"

which may work, depending on what you're trying to do exactly.

By the way, this isn't SMAUG, right?

David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org

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