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357mag · Jun 7th, 2007, 1:03 AM

I've got this program that compares two words. Later on it changes the case of a word from uppercase to lowercase. I saw someplace on the web where a guy was doing this:

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string lowerOrangeFruit = ConvertToLowerCase(orangeFruit)

He was including some header file called "strutils.h" and "genlib.h"

I tried it in my program but my compiler says no way.

Here is what I'm trying to do:

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int main()
{
	string guitar = "guitar"; // g has an ASCII code of 103
	string piano = "Piano"; // P has an ASCII code of 80

	cout << "Does " << guitar << " come before " << piano << "?" << endl << endl;

	if (guitar < piano)
		cout << "Yes!";

	else
	    cout << "No!";

	string lowerPiano = string.tolower(piano);

	return 0;
}

But I'm doing something wrong. I sense that it must be a pretty easy fix. I'll have to keep monkeying around with it.

Jun 7th, 2007, 1:03 AM	#1
357mag Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 148 Rep Power: 4	Converting a word to lower case I've got this program that compares two words. Later on it changes the case of a word from uppercase to lowercase. I saw someplace on the web where a guy was doing this: (Toggle Plain Text) string lowerOrangeFruit = ConvertToLowerCase(orangeFruit) string lowerOrangeFruit = ConvertToLowerCase(orangeFruit) He was including some header file called "strutils.h" and "genlib.h" I tried it in my program but my compiler says no way. Here is what I'm trying to do: (Toggle Plain Text) int main() { string guitar = "guitar"; // g has an ASCII code of 103 string piano = "Piano"; // P has an ASCII code of 80 cout << "Does " << guitar << " come before " << piano << "?" << endl << endl; if (guitar < piano) cout << "Yes!"; else cout << "No!"; string lowerPiano = string.tolower(piano); return 0; } int main() { string guitar = "guitar"; // g has an ASCII code of 103 string piano = "Piano"; // P has an ASCII code of 80 cout << "Does " << guitar << " come before " << piano << "?" << endl << endl; if (guitar < piano) cout << "Yes!"; else cout << "No!"; string lowerPiano = string.tolower(piano); return 0; } But I'm doing something wrong. I sense that it must be a pretty easy fix. I'll have to keep monkeying around with it.