Validation for Having only Numbers at Last

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Dear CPians,

This is Venu, I am a bit new to C++, I have a doubt:

I have a field by name "VehicleNumber" and that should take something like "MPQW1029".

The last four characters should be all digits and not all of them zeroes.

I need to check that format after pressing a button and if the constraints are not followed then an error message should appear.

I have done the in JS and it worked but im not knowing how to code it in C++.

Any Solution would be appreciable.

Thank you in Advance.

Regards,

Venu :)

Posted 13-Aug-12 1:36am

StarRocksAgain

Updated 13-Aug-12 4:18am

Joan M

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nv3 13-Aug-12 7:57am

So where is the problem? When entering the license plate data, parse the string with sscanf or any other parser/tokenizer, look at the four digits and decide whether it's a legal string; otherwise produce a message box with an appropriate error message.

Kenneth Haugland 13-Aug-12 10:21am

How about String manipulation, RegEx or something simular? Were are you stuck anyway, methods, creation subs functions or?

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Dear Joan,

Actually thanks for the reply......Please find the errors that i am getting when i run as u said

--->'checkstringDifferentThan' was not declared in this scope

---->'Isdigit' was not declared in this scope

Any solution would be appreciable.......Thanks in Advance.....

Regards,

Posted 31-Jan-13 1:31am

StarRocksAgain

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Joan M · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-13T04:25:00

You have to divide the problem in parts, and, if you've already made it in javascript, translating it to C++ will be easy.

1. Get the text, using scanf or so.
2. Trim it to get the last four chars.
3. use an index of the char array to check char by char (I think the function you need is IsDigit()).
4. if IsDigit is TRUE then you can continue...
5. at the end or at the beginning (probably it would be better) you can check if the value is equal or different than 0000.

I would use a while loop like:

C++

// here you are happy...
bool bAllOk = checkstringDifferentThan('0000');
int iCurrentNumber = 1;
while bAllOk && iCurrentNumber < 5
{
  bAllOk = IsDigit(plateNumbersArray[iCurrentNumber]);
  iCurrentNumber ++;
}

if (!bAllOk)
{
  // here you are not happy...
}

You've just seen pseudocode... only to give you a rough idea on how to do it.
It is a nice program to do.

Enjoy it.

Divide and conquer! ;)

PS:
Updates due to your questions:

In order to check than a string is different than something: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/compare/[^] or http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstring/strcmp/[^]