toupper - tolower

Hi,

I need assistance in writing a simple program. It's a simple program really. It reads the contents from one file and change all the letters to lowercase except the first letter in each sentence, which should be uppercase then send to the second file. I'm having difficulties using tolower/toupper. your assistance will be greatly appreciated..

this is what I have so far...

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cctype>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{

fstream inputFile, outputFile;
string text;
char ch, ch2;
outputFile.open("output.txt");


inputFile.open("input.txt");
if (!inputFile)
{
    cout << "File open error!" << endl;
    return 0;
}
getline(inputFile,text);
while(inputFile)
{

    outputFile << text << endl;
    getline(inputFile,text);
}
inputFile.close();
outputFile.close();
return 0;

}

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Thanks

And where in this code snippet do you call these "toupper - tolower"?

First you need to think about the program design and how you are going to achieve your requirements. You want the first letter of each sentence to be uppercase and the rest lowercase. Making a letter uppercase or lowercase is easy using the toupper() or tolower() functions for a single character. The issue you have is deciding which is the first letter of a sentence. What constitues the start of a sentence? Once you have decided logically when a sentance starts, then you need to parse the obtained string lines to determine the first letter of the sentence. Only once when you know which character this is can you then convert it to uppercase. Conversly, if the character is not required to be uppercase then it is required to be lowercase. Note that toupper() and tolower() have no effect on non-letters.

ok thanks I think I have a better understanding on how to do it. I will work on it this weekend thank

Sorry I took so long to get back, I was able to figure it out after taking your advise and doing a little research..

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cctype>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

ifstream infile;
ofstream outfile;
void lower(string &);
int main()
{
    string infileName,outfileName,line;
    cout<<"Enter infile name ";
    cin>>infileName;
    cout<<"Enter outfile name ";
    cin>>outfileName;

    infile.open(infileName.c_str());
    outfile.open(outfileName.c_str());

    if(!infile.is_open()||!outfile.is_open()){
        cout<<"Files could not be opened";
        return -1;
    }

    infile.clear();
    while(!infile.eof())
    {
        getline(infile,line);
        lower(line);
        outfile<<line<<endl;
    }

    infile.close();
    outfile.close();
    return 0;
}

void lower(string &line)
{
    line[0]=toupper(line[0]);
    for(int i=1; i<line.length(); i++){
        line[i]=tolower(line[i]);
    }
    return;
}

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thanks..

What if there are two sentences on a line? You're changing lines, not sentences.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by GCDEF

What if there are two sentences on a line? You're changing lines, not sentences.

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Or one sentence over more than one line?