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c++ programming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MNewman943)
Wed Jan 21 13:24:07 1998
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 12:44:07 -0500 (EST)
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From: MNewman943 <MNewman943@aol.com>
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Resent-From: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>
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I am a new c++ programmer, and I hope that either you or someone you know of
that could help me with the following problem.
I started playing around with text documents and I can open, append, and
output. Now I want to know how to format text before the user sees the text.
Suppose I have a text file. And every time the /l is read I want it to take
the entire line and have the text begin a new line of text. The same would
apply for paragraph formats etc. Do I need to build a formal parser to handle
the formatting codes?? If I do then I need to be shown how a little snippet
of the source code would look. Could you please help me?? No one I know seems
to know the answer to that question. I have been stuck for soooo long now
that I am beginning to get really frustrated. Basically I am creating a word
processor from the ground up. All of the other things are done I just want to
know how to format data. The real thing that I want to test with this program
is taking html tags and using those in my newly created word processor. But
first I have to know how my format codes should be handled by the format
procedure of my program. Thank you very much for reading my email. I would
greatly appreciate any help that you could give me.
MNewman943@aol.com
