um hiya,

new round these parts, not sure if i'm breaking any forum rules posting here, so i'll just go ahead and ask my question and trust that if i'm in the wrong place then a moderator shall rollok me.

right

we'll im (trying) to write a C++ script within the GEANT4 framework,

its pretty much the same apart from renaming stuff with a G4 infront and a whole load of librarys

my problem is:

(bear in mind that im not very good at programming to begin with)

Need to read in a file (Coordinates)

Coordinates is comprised of three columns of size N, columns are separated by tab.

occasionally within this file there is a discontinuity and there is a blank line at a random place.

i wish to read these lines (column1 column2 column3) into an array of size [3][n]. until the blank line

perform OPERATION on this array and then out put "results for set"

then resume sweeping and recording the data from Coordinates until the next blank line.

repeat ad inifinitum throughout Coordinates adding the outpout for each set into "results for set" withoutover writing

until the end of Coordinates

?

is this too complicated or tedious for me to ask?

love from Manchester

Kharn

I don't know anything about GEANT4 but I have a little familiarity with C++, and programming in general.

I would say that what you want to do is to build up you program slowly.

Get the function to read in the file line by line. For each line increment a counter so at the end you can say how many lines were read, just to confirm that has worked.

Then for each line check if it is blank or not, you can either display the number of blank lines or the line number that is blank.

Now you should have a situation where you can read in the file and know which lines need processing and which are blank.

And monitor for end-of-file.