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Ooble · May 8th, 2006, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by DaWei

Nah, there are all sorts of things, like 'ispunct', 'isgraph', on and on. See the <locale> header.

If he was looking for all punctuation, then that'd work, but he specifies five specific characters he's looking for.

Infinite Recursion · May 8th, 2006, 10:42 AM

I still favor my find_first_of approach(), regarding the symbols... its flexible, also could be used for digits and alphas (although that'd be overkill since isdigit and isalpha is available).

Regarding my above isSymbol function, it would be as easy as:

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if (isSymbol(myChar))
   symbolCount++;

DaWei · May 8th, 2006, 10:45 AM

Quote:

(If you like, simply assume that, if a character is not a digit or puncuation, it is a letter. Also, just use the most common puncuation symbols (. , ? ! : ;)).

Guess that's interpretable a couple different ways. Anyway, I saw his list. He obviously needs to use the "isWinkyEmoticon" function.

Infinite Recursion · May 8th, 2006, 11:11 AM

You showed sufficient effort, and I became bored... try something like this:

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cctype>
#include <conio.h>
 
using namespace std;
 
bool isSymbol (char x);
void ParseInput (string input);
 
// counters
int alpha = 0, digit = 0, symbol = 0;
 
int main (void)
{
	char myInput[250]; 
	cout << "Enter characters: " << endl;
	cin.getline(myInput, 250);
 
	cout << myInput << endl; 
	ParseInput (myInput);
 
	cout << "Digits: " << digit << endl;
	cout << "Alpha: " << alpha << endl;
	cout << "Symbols: " << symbol << endl;
 
	system("PAUSE");
 
	return 0;
}
 
void ParseInput (string input)
{
	 int i = 0;
	 for (i = 0; i < input.length(); i++)
	 {
		 if ( isalpha(input.at(i)) )
			alpha++;
		 else if ( isdigit(input.at(i)) )
			digit++;
		 else if ( isSymbol(input.at(i)) )
			symbol++;
	 }
}
bool isSymbol (char x)
{
	 string SYMBOLS = "X ~`!@#$%^&*()_+-={}[]:\";'<>?,./|";
	 bool result = false;
	 int location = 0;
 
	 location = SYMBOLS.find_first_of(x);
 
	 if (location > 0)
		result = true;
 
	 return result;
}

lilmul123 · May 10th, 2006, 8:05 AM

thank you very much! i appreciate it

Infinite Recursion · May 10th, 2006, 9:31 AM

You're welcome.

May 8th, 2006, 10:42 AM	#12
Infinite Recursion Programming Guru Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3,467 Rep Power: 8	I still favor my find_first_of approach(), regarding the symbols... its flexible, also could be used for digits and alphas (although that'd be overkill since isdigit and isalpha is available). Regarding my above isSymbol function, it would be as easy as: (Toggle Plain Text) if (isSymbol(myChar)) symbolCount++; if (isSymbol(myChar)) symbolCount++; __________________ http://jasonpowers.net "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

May 8th, 2006, 11:11 AM	#14
Infinite Recursion Programming Guru Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3,467 Rep Power: 8	You showed sufficient effort, and I became bored... try something like this: (Toggle Plain Text) #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <cctype> #include <conio.h> using namespace std; bool isSymbol (char x); void ParseInput (string input); // counters int alpha = 0, digit = 0, symbol = 0; int main (void) { char myInput[250]; cout << "Enter characters: " << endl; cin.getline(myInput, 250); cout << myInput << endl; ParseInput (myInput); cout << "Digits: " << digit << endl; cout << "Alpha: " << alpha << endl; cout << "Symbols: " << symbol << endl; system("PAUSE"); return 0; } void ParseInput (string input) { int i = 0; for (i = 0; i < input.length(); i++) { if ( isalpha(input.at(i)) ) alpha++; else if ( isdigit(input.at(i)) ) digit++; else if ( isSymbol(input.at(i)) ) symbol++; } } bool isSymbol (char x) { string SYMBOLS = "X ~`!@#$%^&()_+-={}[]:\";'<>?,./\|"; bool result = false; int location = 0; location = SYMBOLS.find_first_of(x); if (location > 0) result = true; return result; } #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <cctype> #include <conio.h> using namespace std; bool isSymbol (char x); void ParseInput (string input); // counters int alpha = 0, digit = 0, symbol = 0; int main (void) { char myInput[250]; cout << "Enter characters: " << endl; cin.getline(myInput, 250); cout << myInput << endl; ParseInput (myInput); cout << "Digits: " << digit << endl; cout << "Alpha: " << alpha << endl; cout << "Symbols: " << symbol << endl; system("PAUSE"); return 0; } void ParseInput (string input) { int i = 0; for (i = 0; i < input.length(); i++) { if ( isalpha(input.at(i)) ) alpha++; else if ( isdigit(input.at(i)) ) digit++; else if ( isSymbol(input.at(i)) ) symbol++; } } bool isSymbol (char x) { string SYMBOLS = "X ~`!@#$%^&()_+-={}[]:\";'<>?,./\|"; bool result = false; int location = 0; location = SYMBOLS.find_first_of(x); if (location > 0) result = true; return result; } __________________ http://jasonpowers.net "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

May 10th, 2006, 9:31 AM	#16
Infinite Recursion Programming Guru Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3,467 Rep Power: 8	You're welcome. __________________ http://jasonpowers.net "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

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