Help please

[adiktid]

thank everyone for there help....

is it a bad sign I couldnt figure this out? lol

[Codermik]

Not if your just learning.

@ dput, that code will take into account the .

[adiktid]

@softrix Yeah it is only the 4th week of programming 1. I did great on the other projects and got worried when I could not figure this one out

[j3Rz8vqX]

A sentence cannot be completed without a proper '.' correct?
(Excluding questions and exclamations =D - can add if necessary)

Hopefully OP discovers his/her solution.

[Codermik]

A full stop is not a letter so shouldn't be calculated. :) - plus of the user forgets the . it goes in a indefinite loop ;-)

try this:

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

int main()
{

	string sentence;
	double price, total = 0;
	int index = 0;

	cout << "Enter PPL: $";
	cin >> price;
	cout << "Enter sentence: ";
	cin >> sentence; 

	for (;;)
	{
		if (sentence[index] == 0)
			break;
		else
		{
			if (sentence[index] >= 'a' && sentence[index] <= 'z' ||
				sentence[index] >= 'A' && sentence[index] <= 'Z')
				total += price;
			index++;
		}
	}

	cout.precision(4);
	cout << "Total was: " << total;

	return 0;
}

Since a string is terminated by a 0, for loop will jump out when it finds the end of the string.

[Codermik]

Yeah it is only the 4th week of programming

Still early days, you'll get there :)