Thread: Help me with my c++ homework please

This is the input file I must use names.txt-

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
William Henry Harrison
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Warren Gamaliel Harding
John Quincy Adams
Franklin Pierce
Dwight David Eisenhower
Stephen Grover Cleveland
James Knox Polk

I must call the file in my main program and using c strings I have to organize them in a last name first format. For example for the first one I must put the name in the output file as Roosevelt, Franklin D. I must do it in this format for all of the names. This is what i have so far and I am stuck. I am having trouble in my function.

Code:

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
// File----------- Names 
// Programmer---
// Course--------- CSC115
// Project-------- Program #9
// Due------------ December 8, 2010
//
// This program takes the names of individuals kept in a seperate input file and 
// puts them in the last name first format and puts them back in an output file. 
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------


#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <cstring>

void reverseName(char inName[], char outName[]);
using namespace std;
int main ()
{
	inputfile = names.txt
	outputfile = newnames.txt
	char inName;
	char outName;


	cout<< "Select Input File:"; 
	cin>> inputfile; 
	cout<< endl;

	cout<< "Select Output File:";
	cin>> outputfile;
	cout<< endl;

//-----------------------------
//Name Function
//-----------------------------
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <cstring>

using namespace std;
	
	void reverseName(char inName[], char outName[]){
		
		ifstreaminputfile;
		char inName[100];
		char reverseName;
		char originalName;
		n= pieceCount(name);

		inputfile.open(names.txt);
			inputfile.fail
			inputfile.getline(line,0);
			while(!inputfile.eof()){
				

return 0;
			}

So you are having problems in your function.

May I ask what kind of problems?

Perhaps you have some error/warning messages you would like to share.

Maybe you could describe the problem just a little bit for us.


Jim

I'm guessing the problem is the assignment is pretty much a bunch of pseudocode he threw down in the editor and he's waiting for one of us to make it work. Just a hunch. It's certainly nowhere near compilable.

No it does not compile, but everyone on this forum is so quick to jump to the conclusion that everyone wants them to do their homework for them. I don't want that I would prefer to know how to do it. I was hoping for some suggestions to what i should do or do next or change. Thanks.

I was hoping for some suggestions to what i should do or do next or change.

Since you have decided not to share your error messages or problem description if I were you, I would probably start by reading my error messages and fixing them.

Jim