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Greetings:

I was trying to read in a file using C, and I got a strange error, compling
it in gcc for Solaris:

Code segment:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
.
.
.

FILE *file;
char temp[10];
file = fopen("filelist.txt", "r");
int i = 0;
.
.
.

End Code segment

I got a message saying something along the lines of '(87) parse error before
int'. Anybody have any ideas as to what could be wrong?

Thanks,
Daniel

Dan wrote:

> I was trying to read in a file using C, and I got a strange error, compling
> it in gcc for Solaris:
>
> Code segment:
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> .
> .
> .
>
> char temp[10];

FILE* file = fopen("filelist.txt", "r");

> int i = 0;
> .
> .
> .
>
> End Code segment
>
> I got a message saying something along the lines of '(87) parse error before
> int'. Anybody have any ideas as to what could be wrong?

Artie Gold wrote:
> Dan wrote:
>> FILE *file;
>> char temp[10];
>> file = fopen("filelist.txt", "r");
>> int i = 0;
>
> In C89, which your compiler most likely implements, all declarations
> must be at the beginning of a block; C99 (and C++) do not have that
> restriction[1].
>
> You could, for example, move the declaration of `i' above the call to
> fopen().

Or you could make a new, unnamed, segment with a new scope, which will cause
i to be a temporary variable available only to that segment:

file = fopen(szFileName, "r");
{
int i = 0;

// the rest of the segment here
}

--
Martijn Haak
http://www.serenceconcepts.nl

goose wrote:

> "E. Robert Tisdale" <> wrote in message news:<>...
>
>>Dan wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I was trying to read in a file using C, and I got a strange error, compling
>>>it in gcc for Solaris:
>>>
>>>Code segment:
>>>#include <stdio.h>
>>>#include <stdlib.h>
>>> .
>>> .
>>> .
>>>
>>> char temp[10];
>>>
>> FILE* file = fopen("filelist.txt", "r");
>>
>>
>>> int i = 0;
>>> .
>>> .
>>> .
>>>
>>>End Code segment
>>>
>>>I got a message saying something along the lines of '(87) parse error before
>>>int'. Anybody have any ideas as to what could be wrong?
>>>
>
> ?????
> could you be less cryptic ? what exactly is that supposed to solve ?
> the OP will have *NO* idea why that will work, and he will repost
> about the other errors in his code that are similar.
>
> goose,
> helpfull today ?
>

Please post more of your program before the int part that the
compiler complained about. I tried the file open and it
compiled fine for me.

That fixed it. Thank you very much for your help.

"Artie Gold" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Dan wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I was trying to read in a file using C, and I got a strange error,
compling
> > it in gcc for Solaris:
> >
> > Code segment:
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <stdlib.h>
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> > FILE *file;
> > char temp[10];
> > file = fopen("filelist.txt", "r");
> > int i = 0;
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> > End Code segment
> >
> > I got a message saying something along the lines of '(87) parse error
before
> > int'. Anybody have any ideas as to what could be wrong?
> >
>
> In C89, which your compiler most likely implements, all declarations
> must be at the beginning of a block; C99 (and C++) do not have that
> restriction[1].
>
> You could, for example, move the declaration of `i' above the call to
> fopen().
>
> HTH,
> --ag
>
> [1] IMHO, to their detriment
>
> --
> Artie Gold -- Austin, Texas
>