Table Class – Error Types

The plan was to write a test program (test_table.cpp) that contains the call to the Table constructor with the try/catch code to output any errors. Then errors would be introduced into the table entry array to test the error handling code. There were some coding errors and some errors in the table (both duplicate and missing codes) that needed to be corrected.

After the problems were corrected, errors were still being reported that the bracketing codes were missing. The problem was that the bracketing code indexes were not in the index_code array (because they were put into the range array).

To fix this problem, how the bracketing codes work was modified. The code that checked for each of the begin and end bracket codes was removed – these can be stored in the index_code array and this solved the missing errors. The indexes are then copied to the range structure.

Two more checks that needed to be performed on the range structure. The first error being to make sure the begin index was not greater than the end index, otherwise the search would malfunction (not find anything). The second error was to make sure that none of the search types begin and end indexes overlap any of the others.

Detection of all of the different types of errors were then tested to make sure they operated properly. Posts Table Class – Data Members and Table Class – Summary were updated to reflect these changes.