A random blob of source code

[LordKaT]

This is, by far, the ugliest bit of string manipulation I've ever done.

int Input::AddToBuffer(char *cTemp1, int iBuffer)
{
int iPos;
int iTemp;
char cText[MAX_BUFFER];
BUF *bPoint;

bPoint = GetBuffer(iBuffer);

for (int i = 0; i < MAX_BUFFER - 1; i++)
 sprintf(bPoint[i].cBuf, "%s", bPoint[i + 1].cBuf);

/* If our string is too long, it'll just get drawn off in null-space.
So, we need to loop through and add each set of 40 chars to a new buffer. */

if (strlen(cTemp1) > 40)
{
 iPos = 0;
 iTemp = 0;
 memset(&cText, NULL, sizeof(cText));

 while (cTemp1[iPos] != '\0')
 {
  sprintf(&cText[iTemp], "%c", cTemp1[iPos]);
  iPos++;
  iTemp++;
  if (iTemp >= 40 || cTemp1[iPos] == '\0')
  {
   sprintf(bPoint[MAX_BUFFER - 1].cBuf, "%s", cText);
   if (cTemp1[iPos] != '\0')
   {
    for (int i = 0; i < MAX_BUFFER - 1; i++)
     sprintf(bPoint[i].cBuf, "%s", bPoint[i + 1].cBuf);
   }
   iTemp = 0;
   memset(&cText, NULL, sizeof(cText));
  }
 }
}
else
 sprintf(bPoint[MAX_BUFFER - 1].cBuf, "%s", cTemp1);
memset(&cTemp1, NULL, sizeof(cTemp1));

return ERROR_NONE;
}

[Buddhist Kitten]

WTF?

[LordKaT]

Chemical2010 said:

WTF?

Well, uhm, yeah. I have a nasty habbit of not commenting my source code ...

[otrfan]

I chose to post a blob of a different sort...

[MonsterX]

Beware of the Blob!
It creeps and leaps and glides and slides across the floor
Right through the door and all around the wall ,
A splotch , a blotch ,
Be careful of the Blob!

[Ator]

LordKaT said:

This is, by far, the ugliest bit of string manipulation I've ever done.

Believe me, when I used to write C and C++, my code was much uglier than your C code.

[LordKaT]

My biggest problem with this set of code is that it adds each 40-line string of text into a new buffer. What I'd *like* to do is keep each line of text seperate but draw every 40 chars on a new line.

Except my problem is that when I attempt that, my buffer drawing routines get all flapjacksed up, and text starts to overdraw text and ... it's a real ugly mess.

Oh well, this is better than nothing, I suppose!

[marytrobot]

this just went over my head, I'm not a computer person...