Lost with Arrays

[BeginnerSuz]

hello -
I'm lost and trying to write a program that takes in a sentence from the User and converts it to pig latin. That is, remove each first letter of a work and place it at the end of the word. I'm stumped. I can't even get my mind around this and I've been on it for 4 hours. If someone could provide me with some helpful hints, I would great appreciate it.

#include <iostream>
#include <cctype>
#include <string>
#include <cstring>
#include <stdio.h>

using namespace std;

//Function Prototype
	void translateUser(int);    //Function prototype
int main()
	int SIZE = 256;				//Max size of string
	int userInput[256];			//String Input
	int count = 0;				//Counter
	int num = 0;				//counter for pointer conversion

//Get the User's input.
cout << "Please enter a sentence and hit the Return key when complete. \n";
cin.getline(userInput);

//Search the array for "0" or \0  values
StrPtr=&string[0];

	while (*StrPtr!='\0')
	{
		for (count = 0; count < SIZE; count++)
		{
		if (isspace(string))
		//If it's a space, must do something 
		cout << "space encountered n\";

		if ((isalpha(string) || isdigit(string))
		//If a letter occurs, move on
		cout << count[] << endl;
			}
			return 0;
		}
} 

[o3hC5Di1]

Hi there,

Looks like you're missing an opening brace of your main() function.
Now, you would probably be best of using std::string over c-strings.

#include <sstream>

std::string input, tmp;

//Get the User's input.
cout << "Please enter a sentence and hit the Return key when complete. \n";
cin.getline(input);

std::istringstream iss(input); //temporary stringstream

while (iss >> tmp)  //while there are words in the sentence
{
    char first = tmp[0]; //get first character
    tmp.erase(0,1); //erase first character
    tmp.append(first); //put first character at the back

    std::cout << tmp;
}

That should get you on your way, please do let us know if you require any further help.

All the best,
NwN

[mobotus]

Not sure why you have an array of ints on line 14 I am going to assume you wanted an array of char?

But since you included string in your header I would start approaching the problem like this.

#include <iostream>
#include <cctype>
#include <string>

using namespace std;


//Function Prototype
void translateUser(string&);    //Function prototype


int main(){

	string userInput;			//String Input

	//Get the User's input.
	cout << "Please enter a sentence and hit the Return key when complete." << endl;
	getline(cin, userInput);

        //Finish Up
	translateUser(userInput);

	return 0;

}

void translateUser(string &userInput){

	//Function Here

}

[BeginnerSuz]

I obviously don't know what I am doing. I was told I need to use the C++ string class. Even a more difficult understanding now for me....
Thank you for your suggestions and time

[Chervil]

The suggestions from NwN and mobotus do use the C++ string class.

What specific question(s) do you have now?

[mobotus]

Look over the string class here http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/

Here is some code to look over.

#include <string>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;


int main(){

	string tmp = "cat";
	string end = "t";

	char first = tmp.at(0); //get first character
	tmp.erase(0, 1); //erase first character
	tmp += first; //append char first to string tmp
	tmp.append(end); //append additional content to string

	cout << tmp; //cat is now atct

	return 0;

}