Thread: Need a little help on a simple program.

The program should find and delete all vowels in a word that is user entered. This is what I have so far and I know it should be essentially this format I just don't know how to set enteredword and word equal to each other. thanks.

Code:

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




void vowelremover(string&);
string word;
int main ()
{


    //string word;


    cout << "Enter a word of which you want the vowels removed: ";
    cin >> word;


    vowelremover(word);


    cout << "The word without vowels is: " << word << endl;


    return 0;


}




void vowelremover (string& enteredword)
{
string enteredword = word;
    int posvowel;


    posvowel = enteredword.find("a,e,i,o,u,A,E,I,O,U");


    while (posvowel >= 0 && posvowel < enteredword.length())
    {
        enteredword.erase(posvowel, 1);
        
        posvowel = enteredword.find("a,e,i,o,u,A,E,I,O,U");
    }


}

Actually it's worse than that,

string enteredword = word;

this is

string enteredword(word);

it shadows the parameter enteredword, meaning that it is hidden and cannot be used until the local variable is renamed.