Program to replace consecutive blank spaces with a single space.

I am writing a program that should prompt the user to enter a line of text, and if there are consecutive spaces between the words, it should output the sentence with single spaces.

I'm not really even sure that I'm headed in the right direction, but even if I am, my code has a lot of errors.

Here's what I have:

Code:

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
 AnsiString; Line;
 int Index;

Line = ReadStringPr("Enter your text with consecutive spaces." );
Index = 1;


while ((Index <= Length(Line) && Line[Index] == ' '))

{
   if (Line[Index] != ' ')
      {

      WriteChar(Line[Index]);
      Index = Index + 1;
      }
   else
      {

      WriteChar(' ');


      while (Line[Index] == ' ')
        Index = Index + 1;
      }
}
 getchar();
 return 0;
 }

And here are the errors:

C:\excredit5.cpp(3) : error C2065: 'AnsiString' : undeclared identifier
C:\excredit5.cpp(3) : error C2065: 'Line' : undeclared identifier
C:\excredit5.cpp(6) : error C2065: 'ReadStringPr' : undeclared identifier
C:\excredit5.cpp(10) : error C2065: 'Length' : undeclared identifier
C:\excredit5.cpp(10) : error C2109: subscript requires array or pointer type
C:\excredit5.cpp(13) : error C2109: subscript requires array or pointer type
C:\excredit5.cpp(16) : error C2065: 'WriteChar' : undeclared identifier
C:\excredit5.cpp(16) : error C2109: subscript requires array or pointer type
C:\excredit5.cpp(25) : error C2109: subscript requires array or pointer type
C:\excredit5.cpp(29) : error C2065: 'getchar' : undeclared identifier
Error executing cl.exe.


I know that the errors are probably pretty self-explanitory, but I really don't know how to fix them. Can anyone help?


Thanks so much.

Your code looks like C -- next time, post in the C forum, not the C++ one.

The first thing you need to do is to add this line to the top of your program.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

That should get rid of the getchar() error anyway.

Code:

 AnsiString; Line;

What are you trying to do here? Declare a variable called Line? Maybe you want to make its type char* instead.

Code:

char *Line;

Code:

WriteChar(' ');

I'm not familiar with that function . . . try putchar(' ') instead.

Code:

Line = ReadStringPr("Enter your text with consecutive spaces." );

There's no such function . . . maybe you want a printf() followed by a scanf()?

That code is very incomplete. You're calling functions that don't exist. You're assuming that 1 is the first index of an array (0 is). What are you trying to do?

Why don't you have a look at some tutorials? http://cprogramming.com/tutorial.html#ctutorial

Originally Posted by dwks

That code is very incomplete. You're calling functions that don't exist. You're assuming that 1 is the first index of an array (0 is). What are you trying to do?

If this is homework, maybe those functions are provided by a framework the instructor provides.

Moved.

Originally Posted by brewbuck

If this is homework, maybe those functions are provided by a framework the instructor provides.

Perhaps so. But the functions are so basic that the instructor should be advocating the use of putchar() etc instead of them.

And even if they are provided, the OP is not including a header file or something, because of all the "undeclared identifier" errors.

But it's worth a shot. Are you using any special libraries? Did your instructor (if you have one) give you a library to use?

If you are, you'll have to set things up so you can use those functions. You could try putting the library in the same directory as your source code, #include-ing whatever .h files are part of the library, and linking to the .lib file (since you seem to be using MSVC). I'm not sure how to do this with MSVC, but I'm sure you could figure it out with some googling -- or someone who uses MSVC could tell you.