What is wrong with my code? (strings)

[ahammad]

Hello,

I have written a fairly complex parsing tool that is used to parse information from company documents. The program works very well, but in order to insure that all the data is copied properly, I had to remove some of the things that are not part of the data, but are simply headings. Here is what I mean:

*Heading
<CODE1> = <COMMAND1>
<CODE2> = <COMMAND2>

The program reads in each line, and separates <CODE1> from <COMMAND1> at the equals sign. the program then stores the <COMMAND1> in a CMapStringToString object with <CODE1> as the key. I have already mentioned that in other discussions.

Here is the problem: when retrieving <COMMAND1> directly below the heading, the code isn't simply <CODE1>, but all the stuff in the heading is part of it. What I mean is, if I want to get whatever is stored as <COMMAND2>, I would type:

CMapStringToStringObject["<CODE2>"]

But if I want to get <COMMAND1>, I would have to type:

CMapStringToStringObject["*Heading\n<CODE1>"]

So in order to solve this, I designed the program to delete the first digits of the <CODE> string if they are not equal to "<". This works, but when I output everything to the console, the headings disappear, as they have been deleted.

So here is what I put before the printing is done:

        int i = 0;
 
        BOOL newLine = false, text = false;
 
        std_string code , cmd, dummy;
 
        while (std::getline(input, code, input.widen('='))) {    //reads in characters until the '='
 
            std::getline(input,cmd);                            //reads in remaining characters in the line
 
            code.erase(code.begin() + (code.size()-1));            //erase last character, a whitespace
            cmd.erase(cmd.begin());                                //erase first character, a whitespace
 
            while (code[0] != '<') {                            //checks if the first character of 'code' is not <
 
                if (code[0] == '\n') {
                    newLine = true;
                } else {
                    text = true;
                }            
 
                dummy[i] = code[0];
                code.erase(code.begin());
                i++;
            }
 
            if (newLine) {                //checks if there has been a newline character preceding a 'code' in this iteration
                wcout << endl;            //if there is, a newline character is printed onto console and ofstream file
                output << endl;
            }
 
            if (text) {                            //checks if there has been text preceding a 'code' in this iteration
                wcout << dummy << endl;            //if there is, the text is printed onto console and ofstream file
                output << dummy << endl;
            }
 
            newLine = false;    //resets the value for newLine to false
            text = false;
            i = 0;
 
        }

Like I said, all other parts of the code work, except for this:

            while (code[0] != '<') {                            //checks if the first character of 'code' is not <
 
                if (code[0] == '\n') {
                    newLine = true;
                } else {
                    text = true;
                }            
 
                dummy[i] = code[0];
                code.erase(code.begin());
                i++;
            }

According to the debugger, it crashes at the second iteration, when it reaches dummy[i] = code[0]

[xoinki]

std_string code , cmd, dummy;

u have not declared dummy as an array and u r using it as an array..
it is crashing because of that reason i suppose..
Xoinki