psicodelic

I am trying to figure out in a problem as follows:

A user have enter a minimum population number into a textfield.

Next in our code we have to:

-Open the file
-Read three fields in each record and display all the states that have at least the specified minimum population

-Then display the output in a listbox.

i.e. for instance if you enter 10000 and Florida has more than 10000 people display florida and the other states in the listbox

Any input would be helpful

DaWei

First, be sure and read the forum's rules/FAQ and a How to Post thread, then show some code or pseudocode; there's plenty of help available if you break some sweat, yourself.

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bl00dninja

doesn't sound too terribly hard, i guess you might be more specific about which part you don't get. like reading files, or simply retrieving data from textboxes or whatever, there's lots of documentation online also.

the problem itself is kind of dumb though...is it an assignment? i mean, who cares about the data? florida 100000 and more states? why enter a state in the first place? it's a decent intro excercise, but damn they could have made it more interesting.

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gryfang

I noticed you Said Read three fields... and You play with only State and Population (what's the third field).
I'd at least ask the Teach/Prof about the exact format the file will be in, [State, Population, Age] or [Population, State \\\ DateAdmittedIntoUnion <Year>] so that you know how to do your problem.
Also I would think about all the error cases that you could encounter so you don't get penalized for not thinking about then (Such as the user entering Florida twice with two different populations, of the User entering Florida with a population of a string "People").
Those are just suggestions and you really have to work on the solution a little so that the problems you have specifically can be overcome except for just stating a generality and waiting for a miracle.

I hope my rant helped

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java_roshan

Just to add to it, ..

Please be a bit specific on the thread title that should speak about the problem domain

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bl00dninja

still just at one post...gone with the wind.

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