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I'm trying to compare a character array against a string like so:
const char *var1 = " ";
var1 = getenv("myEnvVar");
if(var1 == "dev")
{
// do stuff
}
This if statement never validates as true... when I output var1 it is "dev", I was thinking maybe it has something to do with a null terminated string, but the strlen of "dev" and var1 are equal... I also thought maybe var1 == "dev" was comparing "dev" against the memory location of var1 instead of the value. *var1 == "dev" results in an error.... tried many things, probably a simple solution for the saavy c++ developer (I havent coded c++ in a looong time).
edit:
we've tried
if(strcmp(var1, "dev") == 0)
and
if(strncmp(var1, "dev", 3) == 0)
Thanks
edit: After testing at home I'm just going to suggest my co-worker changes the datatype to a string. I believe he was comparing a char array of a large size against a string. I put together a program that outputs sizeof, strlen, etc to help us work through it. Thanks to everyone for the help.
Use strcmp() to compare the contents of strings:
if (strcmp(var1, "dev") == 0) {
}
Explanation: in C, a string is a pointer to a memory location which contains bytes. Comparing a char* to a char* using the equality operator won't work as expected, because you are comparing the memory locations of the strings rather than their byte contents. A function such as strcmp() will iterate through both strings, checking their bytes to see if they are equal. strcmp() will return 0 if they are equal, and a non-zero value if they differ. For more details, see the manpage.
You're not working with strings. You're working with pointers.
var1 is a char pointer (const char*). It is not a string. If it is null-terminated, then certain C functions will treat it as a string, but it is fundamentally just a pointer.
So when you compare it to a char array, the array decays to a pointer as well, and the compiler then tries to find an operator == (const char*, const char*).
Such an operator does exist. It takes two pointers and returns true if they point to the same address. So the compiler invokes that, and your code breaks.
IF you want to do string comparisons, you have to tell the compiler that you want to deal with strings, not pointers.
The C way of doing this is to use the strcmp function:
strcmp(var1, "dev");
This will return zero if the two strings are equal. (It will return a value greater than zero if the left-hand side is lexicographically greater than the right hand side, and a value less than zero otherwise.)
So to compare for equality you need to do one of these:
if (!strcmp(var1, "dev")){...}
if (strcmp(var1, "dev") == 0) {...}
However, C++ has a very useful string class. If we use that your code becomes a fair bit simpler. Of course we could create strings from both arguments, but we only need to do it with one of them:
std::string var1 = getenv("myEnvVar");
if(var1 == "dev")
{
// do stuff
}
Now the compiler encounters a comparison between string and char pointer. It can handle that, because a char pointer can be implicitly converted to a string, yielding a string/string comparison. And those behave exactly as you'd expect.
In this code you are not comparing string values, you are comparing pointer values. If you want to compare string values you need to use a string comparison function such as strcmp.
if ( 0 == strcmp(var1, "dev")) {
..
}
"dev" is not a string it is a const char * like var1. Thus you are indeed comparing the memory adresses. Being that var1 is a char pointer, *var1 is a single char (the first character of the pointed to character sequence to be precise). You can't compare a char against a char pointer, which is why that did not work.
Being that this is tagged as c++, it would be sensible to use std::string instead of char pointers, which would make == work as expected. (You would just need to do const std::string var1 instead of const char *var1.
There is more stable function, also gets rid of string folding.
// Add to C++ source
bool string_equal (const char* arg0, const char* arg1)
{
/*
* This function wraps string comparison with string pointers
* (and also works around 'string folding', as I said).
* Converts pointers to std::string
* for make use of string equality operator (==).
* Parameters use 'const' for prevent possible object corruption.
*/
std::string var0 = (std::string) arg0;
std::string var1 = (std::string) arg1;
if (var0 == var1)
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
And add declaration to header
// Parameters use 'const' for prevent possible object corruption.
bool string_equal (const char* arg0, const char* arg1);
For usage, just place an 'string_equal' call as condition of if (or ternary) statement/block.
if (string_equal (var1, "dev"))
{
// It is equal, do what needed here.
}
else
{
// It is not equal, do what needed here (optional).
}
Source: sinatramultimedia/fl32 codec (it's written by myself)
your thinking about this program below
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main ()
{
char str[][5] = { "R2D2" , "C3PO" , "R2A6" };
int n;
puts ("Looking for R2 astromech droids...");
for (n=0 ; n<3 ; n++)
if (strncmp (str[n],"R2xx",2) == 0)
{
printf ("found %s\n",str[n]);
}
return 0;
}
//outputs:
//
//Looking for R2 astromech droids...
//found R2D2
//found R2A6
when you should be thinking about inputting something into an array & then use strcmp functions like the program above ... check out a modified program below
#include <iostream>
#include<cctype>
#include <string.h>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int Students=2;
int Projects=3, Avg2=0, Sum2=0, SumT2=0, AvgT2=0, i=0, j=0;
int Grades[Students][Projects];
for(int j=0; j<=Projects-1; j++){
for(int i=0; i<=Students; i++) {
cout <<"Please give grade of student "<< j <<"in project "<< i << ":";
cin >> Grades[j][i];
}
Sum2 = Sum2 + Grades[i][j];
Avg2 = Sum2/Students;
}
SumT2 = SumT2 + Avg2;
AvgT2 = SumT2/Projects;
cout << "avg is : " << AvgT2 << " and sum : " << SumT2 << ":";
return 0;
}
change to string except it only reads 1 input and throws the rest out
maybe need two for loops and two pointers
#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <stdio.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
char name[100];
//string userInput[26];
int i=0, n=0, m=0;
cout<<"your name? ";
cin>>name;
cout<<"Hello "<<name<< endl;
char *ptr=name;
for (i = 0; i < 20; i++)
{
cout<<i<<" "<<ptr[i]<<" "<<(int)ptr[i]<<endl;
}
int length = 0;
while(name[length] != '\0')
{
length++;
}
for(n=0; n<4; n++)
{
if (strncmp(ptr, "snit", 4) == 0)
{
cout << "you found the snitch " << ptr[i];
}
}
cout<<name <<"is"<<length<<"chars long";
}
I have made a <stdio.h> only strcmp equivalent... "ish"
But i WOULD like to know. Is there something i've skipped and/or should fix, if i decide to use this as a substitute for strcmp?
DISCLAIMER:: I have no intend to actually substitute strcmp from my daily usage, but I would like to know if I'm currently able to create a similar substitute for it.
code for it:
#include <stdio.h>
// #include <ctype.h> // Optional
typedef char string[20];
int stringcmp(string str1, string str2);
int strcount(string str);
int main (void)
{
string cmp1, cmp2;
printf("cmp1: ");
scanf("%s", cmp1);
printf("cmp2: ");
scanf("%s", cmp2);
// If you want the function to be ran Case-Insensitive, [ctype] library might be your friend
int result = stringcmp(cmp1, cmp2);
printf("(%i)\n", result);
return result;
}
int strcount(string str)
{
int i = 0;
while(str[i] != '\0')
{
i++;
}
return i;
}
int stringcmp(string str1, string str2)
{
int imax = strcount(str1);
if (imax < strcount(str2))
{
imax = strcount(str2);
}
for (int i = 0; i < imax; i++)
{
if (str1[i] < str2[i])
{
return 1;
}
else if (str1[i] > str2[i])
{
return 2;
}
}
return 0;
}
the function in topic makes usage of another one, by the way. Is that a problem in any way?
For starters the function declaration is incorrect.
In fact your function declaration after adjusting the parameters by the compiler looks like
int stringcmp( char *str1, char *str2);
while the declaration of the standard function strcmp looks like
int strcmp(const char *str1, const char *str2);
That is the function deals with pointers to constant strings because within the function passed strings are not changed.
To compare two strings there is no any need to calculate their lengths. It is just inefficient. Moreover you shall use the type size_t instead of the type int to store a length of a string because an object of the type int can be not large enough to store values of lengths of strings.
Also there is an explicit bug in your approach
if (str1[i] < str2[i])
{
return 1;
}
else if (str1[i] > str2[i])
{
return 2;
}
because you are returning a positive value ( 1 ) when the first string is less than the second string while the standard C function strcmp returns a negative value in this case. and vice versa when the first string is greater than the second string you are returning again a positive value ( 2 ).
From the C Standard (7.23.4.2 The strcmp function)
3 The strcmp function returns an integer greater than, equal to,
or less than zero, accordingly as the string pointed to by s1 is
greater than, equal to, or less than the string pointed to by s2.
And moreover the elements of strings shall be compared as objects of the type unsigned char.
Consider the following demonstrative program.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <limits.h>
int main(void)
{
char s1[] = { CHAR_MIN, '\0' };
char s2[] = { CHAR_MAX, '\0' };
printf( "s1 is greater than s2 is %s\n", 0 < strcmp( s1, s2 ) ? "true" : "false" );
return 0;
}
Its output is
s1 is greater than s2 is true
In fact the arrays are declared like
char s1[] = { -128, '\0' };
char s2[] = { 127, '\0' };
provided that the type char behaves as the type signed char (that is usually the default behavior of the type char for many compilers).
So if the elements of the arrays will be compared as objects of the type char then you will get an opposite result to the result of the standard C function strcmp.
The function can be much simpler defined for example the following way
int stringcmp( const char *str1, const char *str2 )
{
while ( *str1 && *str1 == *str2 )
{
++str1;
++str2;
}
return ( unsigned char )*str1 - ( unsigned char )*str2;
}
As you can see there is no any need to calculate preliminary lengths of the strings.
It seems like it would work, although strcmp does not return 0, 1, and 2, but 0, <0, and >0.
See https://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstring/strcmp/ for reference.
By the way, why not use string.c_str()?
strcmp(string str1,string str2) will:
return an a number less than zero if str1 < str2
return zero if str1 == str2
return an a number more than zero if str1 > str2
so your function should imitate this behavior
int stringcmp(string str1, string str2)
{
int imax = strcount(str1);
if (imax < strcount(str2))
{
imax = strcount(str2);
}
for (int i = 0; i < imax; i++)
{
if (str1[i] == 0 && str2[i] == 0) return 0;
if (str1[i] == 0) return 1;
if (str2[i] == 0) return -1;
if (str1[i] < str2[i])
{
return -1;
}
else if (str1[i] > str2[i])
{
return 1;
}
}
return 0;
}
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
int main(){
printf("%d",strcmp("hell ","hell"));
}
bro scanf dosent scan white spaces but if you run the above code white spaces play an important role it prints 1;
so check alternative
I'm trying to compare a character array against a string like so:
const char *var1 = " ";
var1 = getenv("myEnvVar");
if(var1 == "dev")
{
// do stuff
}
This if statement never validates as true... when I output var1 it is "dev", I was thinking maybe it has something to do with a null terminated string, but the strlen of "dev" and var1 are equal... I also thought maybe var1 == "dev" was comparing "dev" against the memory location of var1 instead of the value. *var1 == "dev" results in an error.... tried many things, probably a simple solution for the saavy c++ developer (I havent coded c++ in a looong time).
edit:
we've tried
if(strcmp(var1, "dev") == 0)
and
if(strncmp(var1, "dev", 3) == 0)
Thanks
edit: After testing at home I'm just going to suggest my co-worker changes the datatype to a string. I believe he was comparing a char array of a large size against a string. I put together a program that outputs sizeof, strlen, etc to help us work through it. Thanks to everyone for the help.
Use strcmp() to compare the contents of strings:
if (strcmp(var1, "dev") == 0) {
}
Explanation: in C, a string is a pointer to a memory location which contains bytes. Comparing a char* to a char* using the equality operator won't work as expected, because you are comparing the memory locations of the strings rather than their byte contents. A function such as strcmp() will iterate through both strings, checking their bytes to see if they are equal. strcmp() will return 0 if they are equal, and a non-zero value if they differ. For more details, see the manpage.
You're not working with strings. You're working with pointers.
var1 is a char pointer (const char*). It is not a string. If it is null-terminated, then certain C functions will treat it as a string, but it is fundamentally just a pointer.
So when you compare it to a char array, the array decays to a pointer as well, and the compiler then tries to find an operator == (const char*, const char*).
Such an operator does exist. It takes two pointers and returns true if they point to the same address. So the compiler invokes that, and your code breaks.
IF you want to do string comparisons, you have to tell the compiler that you want to deal with strings, not pointers.
The C way of doing this is to use the strcmp function:
strcmp(var1, "dev");
This will return zero if the two strings are equal. (It will return a value greater than zero if the left-hand side is lexicographically greater than the right hand side, and a value less than zero otherwise.)
So to compare for equality you need to do one of these:
if (!strcmp(var1, "dev")){...}
if (strcmp(var1, "dev") == 0) {...}
However, C++ has a very useful string class. If we use that your code becomes a fair bit simpler. Of course we could create strings from both arguments, but we only need to do it with one of them:
std::string var1 = getenv("myEnvVar");
if(var1 == "dev")
{
// do stuff
}
Now the compiler encounters a comparison between string and char pointer. It can handle that, because a char pointer can be implicitly converted to a string, yielding a string/string comparison. And those behave exactly as you'd expect.
In this code you are not comparing string values, you are comparing pointer values. If you want to compare string values you need to use a string comparison function such as strcmp.
if ( 0 == strcmp(var1, "dev")) {
..
}
"dev" is not a string it is a const char * like var1. Thus you are indeed comparing the memory adresses. Being that var1 is a char pointer, *var1 is a single char (the first character of the pointed to character sequence to be precise). You can't compare a char against a char pointer, which is why that did not work.
Being that this is tagged as c++, it would be sensible to use std::string instead of char pointers, which would make == work as expected. (You would just need to do const std::string var1 instead of const char *var1.
There is more stable function, also gets rid of string folding.
// Add to C++ source
bool string_equal (const char* arg0, const char* arg1)
{
/*
* This function wraps string comparison with string pointers
* (and also works around 'string folding', as I said).
* Converts pointers to std::string
* for make use of string equality operator (==).
* Parameters use 'const' for prevent possible object corruption.
*/
std::string var0 = (std::string) arg0;
std::string var1 = (std::string) arg1;
if (var0 == var1)
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
And add declaration to header
// Parameters use 'const' for prevent possible object corruption.
bool string_equal (const char* arg0, const char* arg1);
For usage, just place an 'string_equal' call as condition of if (or ternary) statement/block.
if (string_equal (var1, "dev"))
{
// It is equal, do what needed here.
}
else
{
// It is not equal, do what needed here (optional).
}
Source: sinatramultimedia/fl32 codec (it's written by myself)
your thinking about this program below
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main ()
{
char str[][5] = { "R2D2" , "C3PO" , "R2A6" };
int n;
puts ("Looking for R2 astromech droids...");
for (n=0 ; n<3 ; n++)
if (strncmp (str[n],"R2xx",2) == 0)
{
printf ("found %s\n",str[n]);
}
return 0;
}
//outputs:
//
//Looking for R2 astromech droids...
//found R2D2
//found R2A6
when you should be thinking about inputting something into an array & then use strcmp functions like the program above ... check out a modified program below
#include <iostream>
#include<cctype>
#include <string.h>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int Students=2;
int Projects=3, Avg2=0, Sum2=0, SumT2=0, AvgT2=0, i=0, j=0;
int Grades[Students][Projects];
for(int j=0; j<=Projects-1; j++){
for(int i=0; i<=Students; i++) {
cout <<"Please give grade of student "<< j <<"in project "<< i << ":";
cin >> Grades[j][i];
}
Sum2 = Sum2 + Grades[i][j];
Avg2 = Sum2/Students;
}
SumT2 = SumT2 + Avg2;
AvgT2 = SumT2/Projects;
cout << "avg is : " << AvgT2 << " and sum : " << SumT2 << ":";
return 0;
}
change to string except it only reads 1 input and throws the rest out
maybe need two for loops and two pointers
#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <stdio.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
char name[100];
//string userInput[26];
int i=0, n=0, m=0;
cout<<"your name? ";
cin>>name;
cout<<"Hello "<<name<< endl;
char *ptr=name;
for (i = 0; i < 20; i++)
{
cout<<i<<" "<<ptr[i]<<" "<<(int)ptr[i]<<endl;
}
int length = 0;
while(name[length] != '\0')
{
length++;
}
for(n=0; n<4; n++)
{
if (strncmp(ptr, "snit", 4) == 0)
{
cout << "you found the snitch " << ptr[i];
}
}
cout<<name <<"is"<<length<<"chars long";
}
I've been trying to bend my head around this problem for a week now, but I can't seem to find anything online and I've given up on trying to solve it on my own.
My assignment is to write a program which will read names from a file and accept new entries from the user, then sort the entires and write them out to the file. The only crux about this is that I have to sort them in a function and use pointers to do so. This code is supposed to be written in C++ aswell, using character arrays.
The code I have right now looks like this. This is a working version, the only problem is that I don't use neither pointers or a function to sort the names.
#include<iostream>
#include<cstdlib>
#include<fstream>
#include<cstring>
bool sorted;
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int i = 0;
int numNames = 0;
ifstream ifs;
ifs.open("namn.txt");
char c[20][20];
if(ifs.is_open())
{
while(!ifs.eof())
{
ifs >> c[i];
i++;
}
}
cout<<"How many names do you want to enter?"<<endl;
cin>>numNames;
for(int l = i-1; l<numNames+i-1; l++)
{
system("cls");
cout<<"Enter a name: ";
cin>>c[l];
}
while(sorted == false)
{
for(int j = 0; j<numNames+i-1; j++)
{
for(int k = j; k<numNames+i-1; k++)
{
if(c[j][0] > c[k][0])
{
char snorre[20];
strcpy(snorre,c[j]);
strcpy(c[j],c[k]);
strcpy(c[k],snorre);
}
else if(c[j][0] == c[k][0])
{
if(c[j][1] > c[k][1])
{
char snorre[20];
strcpy(snorre,c[j]);
strcpy(c[j],c[k]);
strcpy(c[k],snorre);
}
}
}
}
cout<<endl<<endl<<endl;
ofstream ofs;
ofs.open("namn.txt");
for(int o = 0; o<numNames+i-1; o++)
{
cout<<c[o]<<" ";
ofs<<c[o]<<endl;
}
ofs.close();
system("pause");
sorted = true;
}
}
So hopefully someone could help me out with this problem, thanks in advance! :)
To get your code to use pointers and functions, you can do this- you should change your code and make it use the following:
First, Get each name from the file to an std::string, using getline(ifstream_object, std::string_object), for reference see here.
Convert each one to a const char * (also shown in that example), using .c_str().
Do the following to each of the new names entered.
Store all names entered in this array pointers: char *names[20];, like this: names[i] = name;
Next, Create a function such as follows:
int location_of_bigger_string(const char* s1, const char* s2)
{
// Returns 1 if s1 should be before s2 and 2 otherwise
// This way, you use functions and pointers together.
// Use strcmp(s1,s2) here to determine returning value
}
strcmp(char*, char*) - read about it here.
Finally, to sort all the strings, use qsort or this example.
Here's the complete code,
Note that the compare function gets pointers to the elements, here the elements are pointers themselves, so what's passed to "compare" function is of type "char **"
{
#include "stdafx.h"
#include<iostream>
//retruns +1 if str1 > str2 alphabetically
int compare(const void * a, const void * b )
{
const char * str1 = *((const char **)a);
const char * str2 = *((const char **)b);
int i;
for ( i = 0 ; str1[i] && str2[i] ; i++ )
{
if ( str1[i] > str2[i] )
{
return +1;
}
else if ( str1[i] < str2[i] )
{
return -1;
}
}
//one or both strings have ended
if (str1[i]) //str1 is longer
return +1;
else if (str2[i]) //str2 is longer
return -1;
else
return 0;
}
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
char * names[]={"Zebra","Kousha","Koosha","Kou","Koush","Test"};
qsort( names, 6, sizeof(char *), compare );
return 0;
}
}
I'm trying to compare a character array against a string like so:
const char *var1 = " ";
var1 = getenv("myEnvVar");
if(var1 == "dev")
{
// do stuff
}
This if statement never validates as true... when I output var1 it is "dev", I was thinking maybe it has something to do with a null terminated string, but the strlen of "dev" and var1 are equal... I also thought maybe var1 == "dev" was comparing "dev" against the memory location of var1 instead of the value. *var1 == "dev" results in an error.... tried many things, probably a simple solution for the saavy c++ developer (I havent coded c++ in a looong time).
edit:
we've tried
if(strcmp(var1, "dev") == 0)
and
if(strncmp(var1, "dev", 3) == 0)
Thanks
edit: After testing at home I'm just going to suggest my co-worker changes the datatype to a string. I believe he was comparing a char array of a large size against a string. I put together a program that outputs sizeof, strlen, etc to help us work through it. Thanks to everyone for the help.
Use strcmp() to compare the contents of strings:
if (strcmp(var1, "dev") == 0) {
}
Explanation: in C, a string is a pointer to a memory location which contains bytes. Comparing a char* to a char* using the equality operator won't work as expected, because you are comparing the memory locations of the strings rather than their byte contents. A function such as strcmp() will iterate through both strings, checking their bytes to see if they are equal. strcmp() will return 0 if they are equal, and a non-zero value if they differ. For more details, see the manpage.
You're not working with strings. You're working with pointers.
var1 is a char pointer (const char*). It is not a string. If it is null-terminated, then certain C functions will treat it as a string, but it is fundamentally just a pointer.
So when you compare it to a char array, the array decays to a pointer as well, and the compiler then tries to find an operator == (const char*, const char*).
Such an operator does exist. It takes two pointers and returns true if they point to the same address. So the compiler invokes that, and your code breaks.
IF you want to do string comparisons, you have to tell the compiler that you want to deal with strings, not pointers.
The C way of doing this is to use the strcmp function:
strcmp(var1, "dev");
This will return zero if the two strings are equal. (It will return a value greater than zero if the left-hand side is lexicographically greater than the right hand side, and a value less than zero otherwise.)
So to compare for equality you need to do one of these:
if (!strcmp(var1, "dev")){...}
if (strcmp(var1, "dev") == 0) {...}
However, C++ has a very useful string class. If we use that your code becomes a fair bit simpler. Of course we could create strings from both arguments, but we only need to do it with one of them:
std::string var1 = getenv("myEnvVar");
if(var1 == "dev")
{
// do stuff
}
Now the compiler encounters a comparison between string and char pointer. It can handle that, because a char pointer can be implicitly converted to a string, yielding a string/string comparison. And those behave exactly as you'd expect.
In this code you are not comparing string values, you are comparing pointer values. If you want to compare string values you need to use a string comparison function such as strcmp.
if ( 0 == strcmp(var1, "dev")) {
..
}
"dev" is not a string it is a const char * like var1. Thus you are indeed comparing the memory adresses. Being that var1 is a char pointer, *var1 is a single char (the first character of the pointed to character sequence to be precise). You can't compare a char against a char pointer, which is why that did not work.
Being that this is tagged as c++, it would be sensible to use std::string instead of char pointers, which would make == work as expected. (You would just need to do const std::string var1 instead of const char *var1.
There is more stable function, also gets rid of string folding.
// Add to C++ source
bool string_equal (const char* arg0, const char* arg1)
{
/*
* This function wraps string comparison with string pointers
* (and also works around 'string folding', as I said).
* Converts pointers to std::string
* for make use of string equality operator (==).
* Parameters use 'const' for prevent possible object corruption.
*/
std::string var0 = (std::string) arg0;
std::string var1 = (std::string) arg1;
if (var0 == var1)
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
And add declaration to header
// Parameters use 'const' for prevent possible object corruption.
bool string_equal (const char* arg0, const char* arg1);
For usage, just place an 'string_equal' call as condition of if (or ternary) statement/block.
if (string_equal (var1, "dev"))
{
// It is equal, do what needed here.
}
else
{
// It is not equal, do what needed here (optional).
}
Source: sinatramultimedia/fl32 codec (it's written by myself)
your thinking about this program below
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main ()
{
char str[][5] = { "R2D2" , "C3PO" , "R2A6" };
int n;
puts ("Looking for R2 astromech droids...");
for (n=0 ; n<3 ; n++)
if (strncmp (str[n],"R2xx",2) == 0)
{
printf ("found %s\n",str[n]);
}
return 0;
}
//outputs:
//
//Looking for R2 astromech droids...
//found R2D2
//found R2A6
when you should be thinking about inputting something into an array & then use strcmp functions like the program above ... check out a modified program below
#include <iostream>
#include<cctype>
#include <string.h>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int Students=2;
int Projects=3, Avg2=0, Sum2=0, SumT2=0, AvgT2=0, i=0, j=0;
int Grades[Students][Projects];
for(int j=0; j<=Projects-1; j++){
for(int i=0; i<=Students; i++) {
cout <<"Please give grade of student "<< j <<"in project "<< i << ":";
cin >> Grades[j][i];
}
Sum2 = Sum2 + Grades[i][j];
Avg2 = Sum2/Students;
}
SumT2 = SumT2 + Avg2;
AvgT2 = SumT2/Projects;
cout << "avg is : " << AvgT2 << " and sum : " << SumT2 << ":";
return 0;
}
change to string except it only reads 1 input and throws the rest out
maybe need two for loops and two pointers
#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <stdio.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
char name[100];
//string userInput[26];
int i=0, n=0, m=0;
cout<<"your name? ";
cin>>name;
cout<<"Hello "<<name<< endl;
char *ptr=name;
for (i = 0; i < 20; i++)
{
cout<<i<<" "<<ptr[i]<<" "<<(int)ptr[i]<<endl;
}
int length = 0;
while(name[length] != '\0')
{
length++;
}
for(n=0; n<4; n++)
{
if (strncmp(ptr, "snit", 4) == 0)
{
cout << "you found the snitch " << ptr[i];
}
}
cout<<name <<"is"<<length<<"chars long";
}