Counting characters help

[Paul McKenzie]

I know that two functions is totally unnecessary - but the book's assignment specifically states to make two.

Programming is an exact science -- if the description says two separate functions:

int countVowels(const char* userInput)
{
   return countHelper(userInput, "aeiou");
}

int countConsonants(const char* userInput)
{
   return countHelper(userInput, "bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz");
}

countHelper is the function I mentioned in my post. See, two separate functions. Also, a good beginner programmer would see that there is redundancy, and would have done something similar to what I wrote above.

Would this be what you're asking for:

for(int foo = 0; foo < vowel; foo++)

No.

There is a library function called strchr() that seaches for a character in a string. I suggest you use it instead of writing another loop.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie