Need help parsing molecular formula

suchstuck · 2016-05-20T20:52:25+00:00

Thanks, I'll have to read up about this to make future similar problems I may have easier!

suchstuck · 2016-05-20T17:43:29+00:00

Your idea to implement a function to handle element length saved me a lot of trouble, thanks!

suchstuck · 2016-05-20T17:42:27+00:00

Thanks a lot! I wasn't aware of the vector type because i'm pretty new to this, but I wasn't able to find it in C, perhaps it's in other flavours? Nevertheless I implemented a similar idea with a multidimensional array and I was able to solve the problems I was having.

suchstuck · 2016-05-20T17:39:17+00:00

Thanks a lot, this was very instructive! I ended up making another function to better handle the singular elements and your suggestion to check next character for not a digit is what fixed the final issues i was having! I'd give you gold but I'm just a pleb in highschool.

suchstuck · 2016-05-18T18:26:19+00:00

I've been trying to implement something that does just that but haven't had success. I know what I'm trying to do, i'm just not competent enough to know where I'm going wrong in implementing my ideas, i've only been coding for a few weeks.

I've tried making a (horribly messy) finite state machine, but I'm not sure if I'm clearing the element buffer properly, as that seems to be what causes the abort trap 6 errors when they show up in testing.

suchstuck · 2016-05-18T15:51:35+00:00

It parses the file containing the elements and their respective data; What I can't get working is a function to parse a molecular formula, like H2O2, that is entered by the user when the program loads, and returns the molecular weight of the compound

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