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Posted 10-16-2021 at 01:46 AM byMichael Uplawski Updated 11-13-2021 at 12:43 AM byMichael Uplawski(Wrong title, much misunderstanding and ill-chosen search criteria.)
There are solutions on the Web.
Having read some of these, I prefer a Ruby-Oneliner “readNB” which returns the 1 character that the user has had a chance to enter on the keyboard, before readNB returns.
---------------------- In the meantime -------------------------
GazL has – in the very first comment on this blog, below – presented a better solution with the shell built-in command read: read accepts some parameters and a call like
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cat tests_sign
#both
############ Numbers with signs
+0
+1
-0
-1
-1*-1
-1*+1
+1*-1
+1*+1
############ Numeric expressions with signs
positive zero
positive one
negative zero
negative one
negative one times
Test cases to validate limits and range of expressions, undefined input errors.
Test cases input file:
Code:
cat tests_limits
/* Tests detection and reporting of limits and unexpected input
*/
######## Valid - Min/Max values
999999999999
-999999999999
nine hundred ninety nine billion nine hundred ninety nine million nine hundred ninety nine thousand nine
Test cases to validate associativity and precedence handling in math expressions.
Test cases input file:
Code:
cat tests_precedence
/* Test of associativity and precedence in math expressions
Input here is symbolic for clarity, alpha input will test same, not shown
Remember: This is integer math as performed by basic C oeprators on long long values
*/
numeric
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