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Subj : help with strings and functions
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "kristine" <sweetsoule@aol.com>
Date : Fri Aug 15 2003 09:35 pm


hi all-

i am having a problem with reading a string from a first function into a second function in order to manipulate it. this is an assignment so i have to use two different functions to complete the task.  what i've done so far gets the output to look correct but the second function I have written does not use the original sentence i will be typing in.  the point of the assignment is to use a loop in the second function to read the sentence originally read in thru the first function.  the input will be "This is
 my sentence."  i need to chop off the word this and put it into array word[], and put the remaining prtion of the sentence into array sentence2[].  can anyone please help.

the following is what i have so far:

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

void readsentence (char []);
void cutword (char[], char[]);
void main ()
{

char sentence[21], word[5], sentence2[16];

readsentence (sentence);

cutword (word, sentence2);

}

void readsentence (char sentence [])

{
printf("Please type in a sentence.\n");
gets(sentence);
printf("\nHere is the sentence: ");
puts(sentence);
}

void cutword (char word[], char sentence2[])

{
char originalsent[21]="Here is my sentence.";

strncpy(word, originalsent+0,5);
word[5]='\0';
puts(word);

strncpy(sentence2, originalsent+5,21);
sentence2[16]='\0';
puts(sentence2);
}

.

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