C++ Program help for a Newbie

Hello everyone. I am taking an online c++ class which offers very little instruction. I am brand new to programing and I am struggling with an assignment. If you would be kind enough to help me it would be greatly appreciated.

Here is the problem: I am trying to write a program that ask the user to enter a sentence and then a word to be searched for in the sentence. The program must then search for the word in the sentence in a loop and continue to output each place the word is found. For example if the sentence is : I like pickles, pickles, pickles

and you searched for pickles it would return pickles found at 7, pickles found at 16, pickles found at 25.

I am having trouble writing the equation to make the find keep searching after each occurrence of the word being searched.

Here is the code I have so far

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;


int main()
{
        string paragraph;
        cout << "Please enter your paragraph:";
        getline (cin,paragraph);
        cout << "Hello, your paragraph is " << paragraph << "!\n";
       
        cout << "The size of your paragraph = " << paragraph.size() << " characters. \n\n";
        string word;
        cout << "Please enter the word you are searching for:";
                getline (cin,word);
                cout << "Hello, your word is " << word << "!\n";
        size_t position = paragraph.find(word);

       

bool wordsearch = true;
        while (paragraph.find(word) != string::npos)  {
               

  if (paragraph.find(word) == string::npos)
                cout << "" << word << " does not exist in the sentence" << endl;
                size_t position = paragraph.find(word);

  if (position!=string::npos)
    cout << "The word " << word << " is found at: " << position << '\n';

  position=paragraph.find((word),position+1);
  if (position!=string::npos)
    cout << "The word " << word << " is also found at " << position << '\n';
  position=paragraph.find((word),position+1);
  if (position!=string::npos)
    cout << "The word " << word << " is also found at: " << position << '\n';
 
 position=paragraph.find((word),position+1);
  if (position!=string::npos)
    cout << "The word" << word << "is also found at: " << position << '\n';

 


 
  else 
          cout << "There are no more occurences of the word " << word << '\n';

        system ("pause");
       
        }while (wordsearch = true);
}

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Originally Posted by radkowboy

Hello everyone. I am taking an online c++ class which offers very little instruction.

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What " online c++ class" do you mean? :confused:
I see neither "online" nor "offline" class definition in your post.

Please use code tags when posting code and not HTML tags. Go Advanced, select the code and click '#'

You're nearly got it, but there's no need to have 3 find tests in the loop. Just one in the while loop condition is all that is needed. So your code can be simplied to

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
string paragraph;

        cout << "Please enter your paragraph: ";
        getline (cin,paragraph);
        cout << "Hello, your paragraph is " << paragraph << "!\n";
        cout << "The size of your paragraph = " << paragraph.size() << " characters.\n\n";

string word;
        cout << "Please enter the word you are searching for: ";
        getline (cin,word);
        cout << "Hello, your word is " << word << "!\n";

size_t position = 0;
bool wordsearch = false;

        while ((position = paragraph.find(word, position)) != string::npos) {
                cout << "The word " << word << " is found at: " << position++ << endl;
                wordsearch = true;
        }
 
        if (wordsearch)
                cout << "There are no more occurences of the word " << word << endl;
        else
                cout << "" << word << " does not exist in the sentence" << endl;

  return 0;
}

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Originally Posted by VictorN

What " online c++ class" do you mean? :confused:
I see neither "online" nor "offline" class definition in your post.

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I think he means an internet training course.

2kaud,

Thank you for your help. You are a life saver. I will be sure to use the code tag next time. I have a question for you if you don't mind. Can you explain to me what the bool statements are doing in this program? I have trouble using them properly.

bool variables take either the value true (non zero) or false (0). They are often used to indicate that a certain condition or criteria have been met. In this case the bool wordsearch indicates if a word has been found or not. When a word has been found it is set to true. Once the end of the paragraph has been reached and the while loop terminated, wordsearch is tested to see if true (non zero) or not and appropriate messages output.