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I've written what should be a simple script that manipulates and organizes some data, then outputs the results to a text file. It looks fine (I think), it says that it compiles, but then I can't find the .exe nor can I find what should be the output file. It also does not seem to run nearly long enough for the amount of processing it should be taking. I'll attach the .dba.

Hi. OK I see a few issues here. First off, this line is unnecessary, and seems to be preventing writing to the file. I imagine that this is some kind of permissions issue, but I really have no idea.


Next, your file name is bound to cause problems, because you construct your file name like so

but those strings will contain / and : characters which are invalid for file names.

However the biggest problem seems to be this.

I'm afraid that this is not valid syntax (I'm surprised the compiler doesn't complain) but the result is that NumClasses and NumLists, when are they read later, are assumed to be new variables and so return 0. That is why it is running so quickly. If you replace that with this, then it appears to work (in as much as you get a file full of data anyway, I have no idea if it's the right data!).


I hope that helps! Do let us know if you have any further problems with it .

That was super-helpful, and now that those basic problems (where did I get the idea that was proper syntax for declaring variables?) are fixed, I am able to fix the other problems in the code. Perfect!