Counting characters help

[LogicWavelength]

By all means, if you have a better way, let me know!! It's not required for our class, but I like to throw everything in there to make my final programs appear more... real. I wrote it a few months ago with a lot less knowledge, and I'm sure I could tweak it a little, but that takes time, which I don't have. What I mean is when I run my program and answer the first question with 'y', it does this:

Would you like to run this program (y/n)?: y
There were 0 vowels and 0 consonants in the string.
There were 0 total characters in the string.
Would you like to run this program again (y/n)?:
Press any key to continue...

[Paul McKenzie]

By all means, if you have a better way, let me know!! It's not required for our class, but I like to throw everything in there to make my final programs appear more... real. I wrote it a few months ago with a lot less knowledge, and I'm sure I could tweak it a little, but that takes time, which I don't have. What I mean is when I run my program and answer the first question with 'y', it does this:

So does this mean you are finished with your issue with looping to find out whether a character is a vowel or not?

Regards,

Paul McKenzie

[LogicWavelength]

Well, yes Paul. I am handing in that version I posted last, with two nearly identical functions. However, I was hoping this thread would stay alive long enough for you guys to help me learn to do it your way - I just needed to meet my class deadline and that version is good enough - probably better than what anybody else will hand in.

I will continue my questions with the while loop for re-running the program in a new thread, to keep the two issues separate - if that's what the forum protocol dictates.

How would I step through a string using a loop to compare the string to an array named vowel, containing "aeiou?" It's really bothering me that it was only comparing the first element, "a," to the string. I will get a chance to write a little test program tomorrow afternoon to test your way that you explained to me, and get back to you with any issues about that, then.

[GCDEF]

By all means, if you have a better way, let me know!! It's not required for our class, but I like to throw everything in there to make my final programs appear more... real. I wrote it a few months ago with a lot less knowledge, and I'm sure I could tweak it a little, but that takes time, which I don't have. What I mean is when I run my program and answer the first question with 'y', it does this:

Would you like to run this program (y/n)?: y
There were 0 vowels and 0 consonants in the string.
There were 0 total characters in the string.
Would you like to run this program again (y/n)?:
Press any key to continue...

The code you showed doesn't ever call your counting functions.

[Paul McKenzie]

How would I step through a string using a loop to compare the string to an array named vowel, containing "aeiou?"

This is less of a C++ problem, and more of a logical thinking issue.

Let u be the user input, and u(n) is character at position n within the user input:

Set i to 0
For each character at position i in the user input
begin
   if ( strchr("aeiou", u(i) ) ) is not 0
       then u(i) is a vowel 
        else 
           u(i) is a consonant
   add 1 to i
end

Regards,

Paul McKenzie