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Naulee (26)
I'm trying to convert a string into its ICAO phonetic phrase using a function, but I'm having trouble breaking the string into individual characters to use in the function and then print. So far every string will just use Alpha and print that as many times as the length of the string, I have a loop to switch characters but I don't know if it's actually recognizing it and there is a mismatch with my < userWord.length() that I'm not sure how to go about fixing, or is my function set up wrong?

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

string convert(char letter)
{
	string icaoword;

	if (letter=='a'||'A')
	{
		icaoword = "Alpha";
	}
	else if (letter=='b'||'B')
	{
		icaoword = "Bravo";
	}
	
	else if (letter=='c'||'C')
	{
		icaoword = "Charlie";
	}

	else if (letter=='d'||'D')
	{
		icaoword = "Delta";
	}

	else if (letter=='e'||'E')
	{
		icaoword = "Echo";
	}

	else if (letter=='f'||'F')
	{
		icaoword = "Foxtrot";
	}

	else if (letter=='g'||'G')
	{
		icaoword = "Golf";
	}

	else if (letter=='h'||'H')
	{
		icaoword = "Hotel";
	}

	else if (letter=='i'||'I')
	{
		icaoword = "India";
	}

	else if (letter=='j'||'J')
	{
		icaoword = "Juliet";
	}

	else if (letter=='k'||'K')
	{
		icaoword = "Kilo";
	}

	else if (letter=='l'||'L')
	{
		icaoword = "Lima";
	}

	else if (letter=='m'||'M')
	{
		icaoword = "Mike";
	}

	else if (letter=='n'||'N')
	{
		icaoword = "November";
	}

	else if (letter=='o'||'O')
	{
		icaoword = "Oscar";
	}

	else if (letter=='p'||'P')
	{
		icaoword = "Papa";
	}

	else if (letter=='q'||'Q')
	{
		icaoword = "Quebec";
	}

	else if (letter=='r'||'R')
	{
		icaoword = "Romeo";
	}

	else if (letter=='s'||'S')
	{
		icaoword = "Sierra";
	}

	else if (letter=='t'||'T')
	{
		icaoword = "Tango";
	}

	else if (letter=='u'||'U')
	{
		icaoword = "Uniform";
	}

	else if (letter=='v'||'V')
	{
		icaoword = "Victor";
	}

	else if (letter=='w'||'W')
	{
		icaoword = "Whiskey";
	}

	else if (letter=='x'||'X')
	{
		icaoword = "X-ray";
	}

	else if (letter=='y'||'Y')
	{
		icaoword = "Yankee";
	}

	else if (letter=='z'||'Z')
	{
		icaoword = "Zulu";
	}

	return icaoword;

}

int main()
{
	string userWord;
	cout<<"Enter a string with a period at the end"<<endl;
	cin >> userWord;
	int i = 0;
	while (i<(userWord.length()))
	{
	char letter = userWord[i];
	string word = convert(letter);
	cout<<word<<" ";
	i++;
	}
	cout<<endl;
return 0;
}
Yanson (885)
if statements should look like this
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	if (letter == 'a' || letter == 'A')
	{
		icaoword = "Alpha";
	}
Naulee (26)
I suddenly feel super dumb because I know that's how the statement should look... But at least it works! Thank you
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