Hello, thanks for stopping in. I am fuddling through some
exercises on a certain website, and I have come across a very
frustrating bug I can't seem to fix.
The Problem:
Given a square matrix of size N×N, calculate the absolute
difference between the sums of its diagonals.
Sample Input:
3
11 2 4
4 5 6
10 8 -12
First line is N, and the expected result of this example is 15.
If I hardcode in the value for N, this code works just peachy.
It's when I am trying to actually read in the value of the first
line from stdin that I am having a problem.
I seem to be unable to convert the string input to an integer to
use later on. The code:
import std.stdio, std.math, std.string, std.conv;
void main(){
auto matrix_size = readln;
//below I have commented out the offending call to to!int and
replaced it with a hardcoded value 3 in order to force it to work.
auto ms = 3;//matrix_size.to!int;
int[][] matrix = new int[][ms];
for(int i = 0; i < ms; i++){
string[] string_nums = readln.split;
foreach (num; string_nums){
auto value = num.to!int;
matrix[i] ~= value;
}
}
int primary_sum = 0;
int secondary_sum = 0;
int j = 0;
int i = ms - 1;
//determine diagonal sums
for(int row = 0; row < ms; ++row){
primary_sum += matrix[row][j];
secondary_sum += matrix[row][i];
++j;
--i;
}
auto result = abs(primary_sum - secondary_sum);
result.writeln;
}
