C/C++: How to round up a number
#include intergerVariable = ceil (floatVariable);
To compile with math.h library you MUST include the -lm flag.
gcc -lm main.c
Daily Archives: 19 November 2011
C/C++: Syntactic Sugar for If Statement
A standard If Statement in C/C++ can become an one line statement by using the following structure
variable = (STATEMENT)?(RETURN VALUE IF TRUE):(RETURN VALUE IF FALSE)
which is the same as
if (STATEMENT){
variable = (RETURN VALUE IF TRUE);
}else{
variable = (RETURN VALUE IF FALSE);
}
C/C++: Capture stdout from a system() command
FILE *results;
int queen;
if (!(results = popen("./precosat -f nqueens.cnf | tail -n +2 | head -n -1 | tr -d v | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -v '^$' | grep ^[0-9]", "r"))) {
cout << "Unable to Execute Precosat" << endl << "./precosat -f nqueens.cnf | tail -n +2 | head -n -1 | tr -d v | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -v '^$' | grep ^[0-9]" << endl;
exit(1);
}
for (i = 0; i < queens; i++) {
fscanf(results,"%d",&queen);
cout << "Queen #" << i+1 << " goes to [" << ((queen%queens)?(queen%queens):queens) << "]" << endl;
}
pclose(results);
Above, you will find an example that was used to extract data from the PrecoSAT SAT Solver in order to solve the N-Queens problem. It returns all positive variables, one per line.
You can see that after the call to popen, it creates a pointer to a file stream that can be used as a regular file to read the data from the called process.
Bash: grep: A couple of usefull applications
(How) to delete all empty lines from a file:
cat someFile | grep -v '^$'
(How) to get all numbers that have no sign in front of them (all positive numbers, from a file where on each line there is one number only):
cat someFile | grep ^[0-9]
(How) to extract all negative numbers (from a file where on each line there is one number only):
You can of course replace the minus ‘-‘ character with any other you want to use as a starting character for a line.
cat someFile | grep ^-
