password restrictions homework

[zzzbluebb]

I am trying to figure out why the website that i have to submit my homework in won't accept this code below as an answer. Redundancy aside, the program seems to work exactly the way it supposed to but i keep getting an error message that says "Checking output Your standard output is not what was expected."

the assignment goes as follows:
"- A password must have at least eight characters.
- A password must consist of only letters and digits.
- A password must contain at least two digits.

Write a program that prompts the user to enter a password and displays valid password if the rules are followed or invalid password otherwise."

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

int main(){
    
    string password;
    int count = 0;
    int specials = 0;
    bool valid_password = true;

    cout << "- A password must have at least eight characters. "<< endl;
    cout << "- A password must consist of only letters and digits." << endl;
    cout << "- A password must contain at least two digits." << endl;

    
    do{
    cout << "Please enter a password: ";
    //getline(cin, password,'\n');
    cin >> password;

    valid_password = true;
    count = 0;
    specials = 0;
    
    for(int i = 0; i < password.length(); i++)
    {
      if ( !isalnum(password[i]))
      {
        specials++;
        valid_password = false;
      }
      else{
        valid_password = true;
      }
    }
    if((password.length() < 8) || (specials != 0)){
        cout << "Invalid password" << endl;
        valid_password = false;
      }
    
    for(int j = 0; j < password.length(); j++){
      if(isdigit(password[j]))
      {
        count++;
      }
    }

    if(count < 2 || (password.length() < 8)){
        valid_password = false;
    }
    
    if(valid_password){
      cout << "Valid Password" << endl;
    }
    }while(valid_password == false);
    
    return 0;
}

[dhayden]

Are you supposed to prompt for multiple passwords in a loop? The assignment doesn't ask for that.

Sometimes you don't indicate anything:

$ ./foo
- A password must have at least eight characters.
- A password must consist of only letters and digits.
- A password must contain at least two digits.
Please enter a password: foo
Invalid password
Please enter a password: abcdefghij1
Please enter a password: abcdefghij1
Please enter a password: foo
Invalid password

[jonnin]

I agree that it appears to work.

the letter of the law approach:
Write a program that prompts the user to enter a password and displays valid password if the rules are followed or invalid password otherwise."


that does not say to write 3 lines of unnecessary text first. Maybe that is breaking the program checker.

[zzzbluebb]

I was wondering if i had to loop it or not but this assignment is in the looping section of the book so that's why I went with a loop.

I also tried the following code (without the loop) but it showed me the same message error:

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

int main(){
    
    string password;
    int count = 0;
    int specials = 0;
    bool valid_password = true;

    cout << "- A password must have at least eight characters. "<< endl;
    cout << "- A password must consist of only letters and digits." << endl;
    cout << "- A password must contain at least two digits." << endl;

    
    cout << "Please enter a password: ";
    cin >> password;
    
    for(int i = 0; i < password.length(); i++)
    {
      if ( !isalnum(password[i]))
      {
        specials++;
      }
    }
    
    for(int j = 0; j < password.length(); j++){
      if(isdigit(password[j]))
      {
        count++;
      }
    }

    if(count < 2 || (password.length() < 8) || (specials != 0)){
        valid_password = false;
    }
    
    if(valid_password){
      cout << "Valid Password" << endl;
    }
    else
      cout << "Invalid password" << endl;
    
    
    return 0;
}

I also removed the lines of text in the beginning like you mentioned but it didn't work.

[Ganado]

Please enter a password: MyPass123
Valid Password

Sounds like the automated grading system is expecting output to be in a way different from what you're providing. Perhaps it's case sensitive? e.g. "invalid password".

[zzzbluebb]

wow, you were exactly right. The grading system was case sensitive. I got it to work. Thank you all for your help I sincerely appreciate it. I'm new to programming so seeing the support from this community motivates me to keep on learning.