String Array homework help

[TenEighths]

Hi, this is my first post so forgive me if Im missing something
anyway I have to write a sudoku program in C++ for my comp sci class
I was a string array that looks like this

string origGame[] = {
"000120000",
"007005000",
"006009410",
"068050002",
"700208003",
"500040970",
"049800500",
"000700300",
"000091000",
};

and what I need to do is write a function that will output it to look like this

- - - | 1 2 - | - - -
| |
- - 7 | - - 5 | - - -
| |
- - 6 | - - 9 | 4 1 -
------+-------+------
- 6 8 | - 5 - | - - 2
| |
7 - - | 2 - 8 | - - 3
| |
5 - - | - 4 - | 9 7 -
------+-------+------
- 4 9 | 8 - - | 5 - -
| |
- - - | 7 - - | 3 - -
| |
- - - | - 9 1 | - - -

Basically I need to change all the 0's into -'s and divide it into 3x3 squares I dont really know anything about arrays or string and my knowledge of C++ is pretty basic, any help is appreciated

[hbjgd]

what you'll need is.

1. A for loop to go through the array.

2. An if statement to change the 0's into -'s

3. A statement to set the width of the lines so that they line up properly.

4. An output statement to output all of the numbers.

5. A Function named whatever you want that will take the parameters needed.

[TenEighths]

Thanks for the reply, my professor gave us this function

void displayGame(string b[]) {
for (int row = 0; row < GAMESIZE; row++)
cout << b[row] << endl;
}
}

where GAMESIZE is a global constant int = 9

this displays the array as

000120000
007005000
006009410
068050002
700208003
500040970
049800500
000700300
000091000

so what I guess Im asking is how can go through each string to find the 0's instead of the array, sorry if Im not clear on what Im asking, like I said Im really not familiar with strings or arrays

[shacktar]

You can use the string's length function to determine the number of characters and you can use the at function to get a particular character.