Beginners - C++ Forum - July 2008 (Page 7)

arranging a string/array of characters alphabetically

i've managed to find out the greatest/smallest character according to the ASCII values but i cant think of a way to arrange all the characters in alphabetical o...

[7 replies] Last: Here is a sorting algorithm for your problem. The code is written to... (by anilpanicker)

by tyler

function to output specific no. of chars of string

i'm trying to use a function to define a string and then calling its value in the main function. the problem is that i have to output only a specific number of ...

[1 reply] : You can use the substr() function to use part of the string. Here i... (by Mitsakos)

by varungadre

How do you print from within a function?

I do not know what I am doing wrong here: #include <stdio.h> int gcdlcm(int *a, int *b); //Prototype Variable void main() { int a; int b; ...

[4 replies] Last: Enter the first number:345 Enter the second number:213 GDC=3 LCM=24... (by Nandor)

by DrumCoder

getline not getting a line!

hi guys, I've finished my first year in a computing degree and I'm trying to get myself ahead of the game by learning some C++. I'm having some trouble ma...

[4 replies] Last: You guys are legends the lot of ya! I'm going through this book "le... (by DrumCoder)

by TheAlliedCentralAxis

Quick question!

Compiling the following code: #include <iostream> #include <string> using namespace std; int countVowels(string aLetter, string aString); int main()...

[1 reply] : The return value for string.length() in an unsigned int and i is a... (by closed account z05DSL3A)

by hamo94

i can't find the differance

i can't see the differance between my code and the example one in the tutorial under clases 1. i copyed the one in he tutorial by typing it instead of copying a...

[7 replies] Last: @Grey Wolf Sorry about that, I was reading something else from Zaita... (by closed account z05DSL3A)

by blindingRage

Random Unicode problem

I have been trying to make a function that writes multiple files to a folder in the order; file1 file2 file3 ect. After some diagnostic coding I realized it wa...

[2 replies] Last: It worked!!! Thank You. (by blindingRage)

by babu198649

To call a function repeatedly after certain period

hi I need to call a function repeatedly after some fixed time(100 milli seconds). Which header files and classes should be used to do this.

[3 replies] Last: Neither sleep() nor any other user timing function can be 100% accurat... (by jsmith)

by victorlmf

Errors and warnings

When I complie my program it said there were 7 errors and 2 warnings. Would someone please find out the errors and warnings and help me to fix it?? Thank you s...

[1 reply] : Where ever you have single quotes ' replace them with double quotes ... (by Mitsakos)

by metsfan95

Multiple Requirenment for If statments

I don't know how to have multiple requirements for if statments, like do this if a = 0 and b = 0. I googled it and searched this site but could not find any dat...

[3 replies] Last: You also have if(a==0 || b == 0) { DoStuff(); } which... (by mikeb570)

by dhiltgen

Is this some secret code????

I got this code from a book. Can you tell me what OUL means. Is it secret code for something???? Its not defined anywhere. I was wondering if its something f...

[7 replies] Last: Wow. Thanks a lot for the help!! Yea, I was searching for O letter too... (by dhiltgen)

by zivchen

Strings combination

In this content, s1, s2 and s3 are strings If I wanna combine s1 and s2 into s3. Is there any related code that can used from library? The string S3 shoul...

[7 replies] Last: s1 + s2 is just a pretty way of writing s1.append(s2) , which in... (by Duthomhas)

by hamo94

i can't find the problem

can any one help me every time i come a cross an example in this tutorial i type it in to my compiler instead of copying and pasting to help me remember it bet...

[1 reply] : for(n=0;n<i;n++){cout<<p <<','; delete p;} ... (by Zaita)

by frendo23

UML diagram..

Can I create UML diagram in web programming?? If it is possible, what should i do or how should i do it??

[1 reply] : http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/1295/ (by Zaita)

by jason387

Problem: assigning strings to structures member

Hello all, I am trying to assign two movies to the structure MovieData then display those two movies. The problem I am having is with lines 29, 30, 34, and 3...

[2 replies] Last: Thanks a bunch for the help, Duoas. C++ get pretty tricky for me and i... (by jason387)

by leeand00

Decorator Pattern and Class Templates?

Hello, I'm not entirely sure if this is even possible, but is it possible to create a decorator pattern in C++ using template classes? I've written some ...

[3 replies] Last: Hey it worked! Thanks a lot! :) Also here is a link to it compilin... (by leeand00)

by leeand00

How does this not return a 2D Array?

Hi, a test case for my code is stored at: http://codepad.org/YWvbEQ6X, My boss says that my code does not actually return a pointer to a 2D Array as I've sta...

[1 reply] : You are both correct. :-] If you want to be really technical, you a... (by Duthomhas)

by hamo94

can someone solve this??

i was testing my knolage on c++ by making this code #include <iostream> using namespace std; int a,b,c,d=5,e,f,g,h,i; int main(){ cout<<"please enter ...

[5 replies] Last: thanks a million would never of quessed it thanks !! (by hamo94)

by delinkx

build solution with visual c++

Hello, I have VS2005 pro. I want to know how to build the solution with it making the EXE and all the BINs and DLLs so tat the program can run another comput...

[1 reply] : It will not "build" the libraries for you to include with your applica... (by arrrgh)

by CPlusplusdna

To std::string or not to std::string...

Hello, I am a little confused over why exactly c++ library strings (std::string) are faster in this example I ran across: Taken from C++ primer 4e (Lippm...

[7 replies] Last: Many string implementations use copy-on-write semantics. In your ... (by jsmith)

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