Shoutbox

I have a little problem with this code.

Basicly it's a array (I think that's how it's called in english, in french it's tableau, well it's some kind of table for programming that you can put date in..)

Anyhow, I'm doing this Othello game, and I'm quite sure there's an easier way to code this, but I can't seem to find a solution.

Here's the current code :

code:

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for ( compteurColonnes = 0 ; compteurColonnes < 10 ; compteurColonnes ++ )
            for ( compteurRangees = 0 ; compteurRangees < 10 ; compteurRangees ++)
                othellier[compteurColonnes][compteurRangees]= '~' ;
       
        othellier[0][0]= ' ' ;
        othellier[0][1]= 'A' ;
        othellier[0][2]= 'B' ;
        othellier[0][3]= 'C' ;
        othellier[0][4]= 'D' ;
        othellier[0][5]= 'E' ;
        othellier[0][6]= 'F' ;
        othellier[0][7]= 'G' ;
        othellier[0][8]= 'H' ;
        othellier[0][9]= ' ' ;
       
        othellier[9][0]= ' ' ;
        othellier[9][1]= 'A' ;
        othellier[9][2]= 'B' ;
        othellier[9][3]= 'C' ;
        othellier[9][4]= 'D' ;
        othellier[9][5]= 'E' ;
        othellier[9][6]= 'F' ;
        othellier[9][7]= 'G' ;
        othellier[9][8]= 'H' ;
        othellier[9][9]= ' ' ;
       
        othellier[0][0]= ' ' ;
        othellier[1][0]= '1' ;
        othellier[2][0]= '2' ;
        othellier[3][0]= '3' ;
        othellier[4][0]= '4' ;
        othellier[5][0]= '5' ;
        othellier[6][0]= '6' ;
        othellier[7][0]= '7' ;
        othellier[8][0]= '8' ;
        othellier[9][0]= ' ' ;
       
        othellier[0][9]= ' ' ;
        othellier[1][9]= '1' ;
        othellier[2][9]= '2' ;
        othellier[3][9]= '3' ;
        othellier[4][9]= '4' ;
        othellier[5][9]= '5' ;
        othellier[6][9]= '6' ;
        othellier[7][9]= '7' ;
        othellier[8][9]= '8' ;
        othellier[9][9]= ' ' ;

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the code is in java, but i think anyone with a little programming skills can understand it

and i have tried making a few "for"s with the numbers.. but the problem is that the array in "char" since I have to represent black by * and white by -

so.. yeah,.. anyhelp would be appreciated.

well, IIRC, this code:

code:

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othellier[0][0]= ' ' ;
othellier[0][1]= 'A' ;
othellier[0][2]= 'B' ;
othellier[0][3]= 'C' ;
othellier[0][4]= 'D' ;
othellier[0][5]= 'E' ;
othellier[0][6]= 'F' ;
othellier[0][7]= 'G' ;
othellier[0][8]= 'H' ;
othellier[0][9]= ' ' ;

othellier[9][0]= ' ' ;
othellier[9][1]= 'A' ;
othellier[9][2]= 'B' ;
othellier[9][3]= 'C' ;
othellier[9][4]= 'D' ;
othellier[9][5]= 'E' ;
othellier[9][6]= 'F' ;
othellier[9][7]= 'G' ;
othellier[9][8]= 'H' ;
othellier[9][9]= ' ' ;

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can be replaced with this

code:

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othellier[0]=new Array(' ', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', ' ');
othellier[9]=new Array(' ', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', ' ');

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not too sure though...

does your own code work?

Jesus, thanks for the help but shawnz has given me a good idea

put the labels outside the array.

Should fix it.

I don't know Java but you could do:

code:

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var Alph = " ABCDEFGH";
for(var i;i=0;i<Alph.length){
    othellier[0][i] = Alph.charAt(i);
    othellier[9][i] = Alph.charAt(i);
}

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etc.

Edit: removed smileys from post which would appear in the code sample

code:

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String Alph = " ABCDEFGH";
for(int i; i = 0; i < Alph.length){
    othellier[0][i] = Alph.charAt(i);
    othellier[9][i] = Alph.charAt(i);
}

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var doesn't exist in Java.

I said I didn't know java .

I know, but hopefully you know a tiny bit of it now