Writing a script to read input parameters for a satellite orbit from an external .txt file. Could someone correct my code?

[Walter Roberson]

I see that you edited the question, but it is not obvious to me what has changed. The suggestions I made earlier still apply.

[Christopher Maraj]

The edit was just to the question itself, not the code. Im unsure as to how to implement your suggestions in the code so i was asking for someone to edit it for me

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

• When you detect invalid input you should probably error()
• Your code is overwriting your complete variables sat_id, Xo, and so on, every iteration of the loop. You probably want to be assigning to sat_id(n), Xo(n) and so on.

[Christopher Maraj]

could you provide an example of what a correct version of my code would look like?

[Walter Roberson]

sat_id(n) = initial(1);
Xo(n) = initial(2);
Yo(n) = initial(3);

and so on.

[Christopher Maraj]

thank you. Ive also encountered an error where it can't access the .txt file: read_input(satellite_data.txt,3)

Undefined variable "satellite_data" or class "satellite_data.txt".

Any suggestions on how to solve this?

[Walter Roberson]

You need to put file names in ''

read_input('satellite_data.txt',3)