operands

Just a small logical question
Can operands can be calculated by subtracting operators from words in a file.
Just help me out.
Thanking you,
K K

Just a small not-quite-sure-what-you-mean response
Um, maybe. What do you mean exactly though? Do you have a file of operators and operands and want to somehow obtain a count of the operands?

No Sir.
Basically i am supposed to calculate the count of operators and operands in a 'c' file.
I could calculate the operators, but i need a small logic to calculate the operands.
Please help me out.
Thanking you,
Sincerely,

Sounds like fun! If I understand your question, this isn't an easy assignment. You might want to find a good book on compiler design.
Here are some hints. Use a StringTokenizer or a StreamTokenizer as part of your parser. You might want several of them to help parse out comments, statments and operators. Consider implementing a state machine to keep track of where you are.

For this to work correctly on real 'C' input files you've got to test against all sorts of legal C code.
/* don't count comments i = j + 3 */
i = j++ + ++ i;
//multiple line code
i = VeryLongFunctionName() +
j * k;
if (a?b:c)
a += (a==4)?b:c;
[ November 25, 2002: Message edited by: Andrew Fischer ]

What is a simple (yet somewhat thorough) example of the contents of the file that you must parse?