Subj : re charlie-help with strings and functions
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "kristine" <sweetsoule@aol.com>
Date : Sat Aug 16 2003 12:46 am


Hi Charlie-

Thanks very much for your reply. Sorry about the indentation!
The program works great but I am not sure why you used command
line arguments. We have not covered them in class yet and what
I just read about them is a little confusing.  Is char*argv pointing to char sentence[]?

Is there a way to have any sentence that is read into the first
function used in the second function; cutting the first word
into char word[], and the rest of the sentence into char
sentence2 []? Perhaps with a do while or for loop?

I later have to create another function to convert the sentence
typed in into pig latin, and then print it (if you can believe
that!).  I think that's why the professor hinted at using
a loop.

Thanks, again.
Kristine



Charlie Page <lissom@snet.net> wrote:
hope this helps,
charlie

>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <string.h>

>void readsentence (char sentence[]);
>void cutword (char originalsent[], char word[], char sentence2[]);

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
   char sentence[100], word[5], sentence2[100];

   readsentence (sentence);

   cutword (sentence, word, sentence2);
}

void readsentence(char sentence[])
{
   printf("Please type in a sentence starting with a four
           letter word.\n");

   gets(sentence);
   printf("\nHere is the sentence: ");
   puts(sentence);
}

void cutword(char originalsent[], char word[], char sentence2[])
{
   strncpy(word, originalsent,5); 
   word[5]='\0';
   puts(word);

   strncpy(sentence2, originalsent+5, 21);
   sentence2[100]='\0';
   puts(sentence2);
}

.