Arduino code cannot continute process

Question

Two days ago, my code is working fine on the arduino board. But yesterday, and today I tried so many time to upload the arduino code, which contains 1000 lines of code. It was successfully uploaded the code into arduino. But it only upload half code into arduino when I saw the serial monitor results (I use serial println(); test where the code is located. ) I am so confusing, why the code is working fine two days ago. but later, only half code being used. Please help.

Here is the memory I left when I uploaded it.

Sketch uses 48,314 bytes (19%) of program storage space. Maximum is 253,952 bytes. Global variables use 2,603 bytes (31%) of dynamic memory, leaving 5,589 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 8,192 bytes.

Here is the code it stuck :
   Get Parameters 
//
//  This function reads the information from the SD card for a given monitoring
//  site.
//

//

int getParameters(){
  String lowerLimit, upperLimit;

   char buffer[36];
  char newChar;
  int index, index1, index2, index3, line, theLength, numSensors;
  myFile.setTimeout(2000);
  line = 0;
  while (myFile.available()) {
    index = 0;
    do{
      newChar = myFile.read();
      buffer[index] = newChar;
      index += 1;
    }
    while(newChar != 10);
    buffer[index] = 0;
    theLines[line] = buffer;
    Serial.print(theLines[line]);
    //here the result is something like this
    //theLines[0] , class 111
    //theLines[1] , 192.168.1.10
    //theLines[2] , Mac Address

    line += 1;
  }

//so it is working fine above the code. But here is the problem stuck.
//the code cannot go through the rest of the code below. Nothing happened!!!
  for (int line = 0; line < 10; line++){
    Serial.print(theLines[line]);

  }

Answer 1

A portion of your code is shown below.

  myFile.setTimeout(2000);
  ....
  while (myFile.available()) {
    index = 0;
    do {
      newChar = myFile.read();
      buffer[index] = newChar;
      index += 1;
    } while(newChar != 10);
   ....
  }

Apparently your code is accepting and printing several lines of option setting text and then hangs up in the code extract shown above.

Suppose, for example, one extra character appears after the supposedly-last linefeed character. Your while (myFile.available()) loop will run again. It will store the extra character, then try to read another character. If another character isn't available, newChar = myFile.read(); will return a -1 that your code will store. That will happen repeatedly, clobbering RAM.

To see if this is what's happening, you could change while(newChar != 10); to (eg) while(newChar != 10 && index<36);. If the code then stops hanging up, look into where the extra character is coming from.