A Little Help!?!?

Hey people, I need some help, I got a new book, and it tells right off the bat to do this to write out all the ASCII characters:

PHP Code:

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#include <iostream>

main <void>
{
    unsigned char ASCIIValue = 0;

    while (ASCIIValue < 256)
    
        std::cout.put (ASCIIValue);
        ASCIIValue ++;
    

    return 0;
} 


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Ok so why the hell dose it not work, this book is using VC++, and im using the same complier, so could osme one plz tell me ***?

Gives errors do to ";" not being behind < or something.

int main(void)
instead of
main <void>

Code:

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#include <iostream>

int main (void)
{
  unsigned char ASCIIValue = 0;

  while (ASCIIValue <= 255)
  {
    std::cout.put (ASCIIValue);
    ASCIIValue ++;
  }

  return 0;
}

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You forgot to put curly brackets for the while loop

Edited: the upper limit of unsigned char is 255

If what you first posted is what your book told you to do then throw it away.

Or send it to me so I can televise its ritual destruction, followed by posting the pieces to the publisher.

:)

How about ritually destructing the author?

lol yeah it was a type from the book..

bah I meant typo

Bad enough that a c++ book gives main no return type. That's a very bad manner that shouldn't even be started.

I know what you mean, it should have been left main ().

No he means the return type, like

Code:

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int Main (...)

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I guess.

I know I meant the return type, thats why I said leave it empty instead of putting void main ( ) main (void)

Leave what empty?

The definition is:

Code:

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int main(int argc, char **argv);

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You can miss off argv, or argc AND argv. Since we're talking about C++, a blank argument list () is acceptable. In C, if main did not require arguments, it should be given as:

Code:

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int main(void);

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because in C, a blank argument list means it can take any number, rather than taking none, as in C++.

it could still have been a typo, because there's return 0;
what does the other examples in the book have?

Don't they ever take a look at their books?