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Hi folks,
I have written an application that acts like a simple calculator and performs addition or subtraction of numbers entered in a certain pattern. I was successful in writing the program and compiling it and exceuting it. I am having little bit of trouble in handling exceptions.
I have to handle four kinds of errors and i did get two of them. But didnt know how to achieve the other two.
1. No input at all. The user presses �calculate� and the input text field has nothing to calculate. Put the message, �Enter An Expression� in the top text field if this occurs (and make the bottom text field blank.
2. Wrong number of operators and operands. There should always be an odd number of items (�55� is one instance, � 3 + 2� is three, etc.) Report �Wrong Number Of Elements� in the bottom text field if there is not an odd number of elements (after you tokenize on �+� and �-� ).
3. Invalid operand. If you find something that is not a valid operand (i.e., not an integer) in a place where you would expect an operand to be, then leave the user�s expression in the top text field and put the message �Invalid Operand Or Operator� in the bottom text field.
D. Invalid operator. If you find something that is not a valid operator (i.e., not a �+� or a �-�) in a place where you would expect to find an operator, then leave the user�s expression in the top text field and put the message �Invalid Operand Or Operator� in the bottom text field.
Below is my code:


Thank you,
kt

[ July 29, 2005: Message edited by: kanaka tam ]
[ July 29, 2005: Message edited by: kanaka tam ]
 
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I'm sure there are many ways to handle this, but here is one suggestion. In your calcStrValue method, use a boolean to keep track of if your token is even or odd. If it is odd check to see if it is a number. If it is even, and it is not +/- throw an exception of your own design and catch it from the caller then display an error message.
 
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For some reason, continued with a slightly reworded repost here.
 
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Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
For some reason, continued with a slightly reworded repost here.



Sorry about that, didn't mean to do that on purpose. Totally forgot about posting i did yesterday from school and posted it again. Anyway, i have completed 75% of the problem.
My code handles the follwing exceptions.
When the user fails to enter any value and presses calculate, A message "Enter an Expression" appears in the input text field. if the user enters say "12 - a" i display a message invalid operand.
But my code does not catch an exception like say "12 & 2" then i should display invalid operator and also a message wrong number of elements if the user enters "12 - ". Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
kt
 
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Hello folks,
The application below is supposed to catch four kinds of exceptions and i have tried my best with a little help from a fellow memeber but not very successful in catching all of the exceptions. I am very exhausted and I can't figure out what is that I am doing wrong? If anyone could help me i would greatly appreciate that.


thanks,
kt
[ August 01, 2005: Message edited by: kanaka tam ]
 
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Can you please give us some more detail? What do you expect this to do? What does it ACTUALLY do? I'm not at my own computer at the moment, so I can't compile your code to see for myself. However, I'll be glad to help you if you provide some more information.

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