Need Help with Array - Strings

[Lemonkiss]

Hello. I'm learning programming, and C++.
I've got a question, but I couldn't solve my problem so far.

I need to use arrays and only basic stuff to solve this:

Create a program that reads a word from the user and then print (cout) this word on contrary. It's simple, I know, but I can't do it, so any help will be appreciate. I've tried some stuff but I don't get how I will get the proper values to do this. All I know is that I can use variable.lenght().

[LB]

What is meant by "this word on contrary"?

[Uk Marine]

Create a program that reads a word from the user and then print this word.

There's really nothing difficult in it, simply include the 'string' header file and inside the main() function, create a string object string name; then let the user input assign a name to it cin>>name -OR- you could make an array of chars instead of a string object, like that: char name[10]; cin>>name; then simply send name to cout. If you want to use the .length() or .size() member function then use a string object instead of an array or if you want to view the size of your character array then try using the sizeof() member function, hope this helps.

[plexus]

If I understand the question right, you supposed to output the string in reverse.
This would be my suggestion for the output loop:

for(int i = variable.lenght() - 1; i >= 0; --i) std::cout << variable[i];
std::cout << std::endl;

I assume "variable" is defined as string.

All the other stuff (includes, main(), cin, ...) is pretty basic straight forward coding you've probably done a couple of times already.

[Uk Marine]

He didn't say anything about outputting the string in reverse form, this is confusing :s

[plexus]

@Uk Marine
That's right. I assumed so because of this: "this word on contrary". Sounds like a unusual translation. Maybe I'm wrong.

[Lemonkiss]

I'm sorry guys, yes, I meant string in reverse, for example:
douglas = salguod

We didn't learned anything about objetcts, just starting on arrays.

Edit: Wow, I can't believe it was so simple, it was really the first thing I had in mind, but didn't tried it out because I thought it wouldn't work. I still don't get it right, this only works withs strings? Can i use the getline instead of the cin on this case as well?

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    cout << "Insert a Word: ";
    string word;
    cin >> word;
    for (int cont=word.length() -1; cont>=0; --cont){
        cout << word[cont];
    }
}

That's it. But I'm curious now, how would this work using the char?

[saratirmizi]

//with char Array this will be the code,

#include <iostream>
#include <conio.h>
using namespace std;
int main(){
    int length;
    char  ARRAY[]={};
    cout<<"Enter Length of the word: ";
    cin>>length;
    cout<<"Enter Word: ";
    for (int i=0; i<length; i++){
        cin>>ARRAY[i];
        }
        cout<<"Reverse Order of the above word is: ";
    for (int k=length; k>=0; k--){
        cout<<ARRAY[k];
        }
        getch();
        return 0;
        }