Thread: ofstream

And i wanna do it by reading a string.

Yes, it makes sense to read each line into a string.

I wanna choose two characters like ". ." two dots for example and uppercase the letter that comes right after.

More generally, you want to find the first alphabetic character in the line, and make it uppercase. isalpha() from <cctype> can help you, but need will need to loop character by chararacter within the string, and break out of the loop as soon as you have used toupper() to change the character found.

EDIT:
Ah, but the find_first_of member function of std::string can help you do away with the character by character loop and the use of isalpha(), though at the cost of having to list the entire alphabet in both uppercase and lowercase.

No, the proggie that i posted does this already.

It does? If it does, then your problem has been solved. I think it does not.

The problem with "find_first_of" it checks only one character not a sequence of characters:

What sequence of characters do you want to find?

And "find" doesnt work with ifstream. Now you see where is my problem.

Recall that you have read the line into a string.

EDIT:
I have this feeling that you changed your requirements midway through this thread. You need to get your requirements straight if you want people to help you coherently.

I asked you if given this input:

Code:

hello
.world
123 abc
5678

You wanted this output:

Code:

Hello
.World
123 Abc
5678

You agreed. But you also wrote that: "I wanna choose two characters like ". ." two dots for example and uppercase the letter that comes right after."

So, you have a choice. Given this input:

Code:

hello
.world
123 abc
5678
..def
..ghi

Do you want:

Code:

hello
.world
123 abc
5678
..Def
..ghi

or

Code:

hello
.world
123 abc
5678
..Def
..Ghi

or

Code:

Hello
.World
123 Abc
5678
..Def
..Ghi

?

....

Im gonna put it like this : i wanna find in a phrase two characters consecutive
( one beside the other , one right after the other , like for example i wanna find "ra":
you find "ra" in the word "phrase" and uppercase the letter right after "ra" which gives you :
phraSe. ) Do you get it now?

Ah. In this case, the find() member function of std::string is what you need. You have to learn how to handle the lack of the search string, but as mentioned you just compare the return value of find() with std::string::npos.

And i said yes before when you showed me your example because i want my program to do different things
and for the other things you asked it can already do it.

That's good.

So you're saying that find() is working with ifstream, because just before you, Anon said it didnt
and if you check out the ifstream reference , there is no find() in it.

I'm not. I'm saying find() works with std::string, i.e., you need to read from the ifstream into a string. You are already doing this with your use of std::getline().

Cool. Thanks for clearing this up to me :-)

str = static_cast<char>( toupper((int(found))+1));

Do you have a concrete idea of why this would do what you want, or did you just write random code and hope it works?

Well, the +1 shows you have an algorithm in mind, so +1 to you. However, what you're missing is that you want to make an character uppercase, but you never actually access the character (str[found+1]), and then you attempt to assign to a string (str), not a character. Of course, you also need to handle the case where the '.' is the last character, in which case there is no character to turn uppercase.

Because 1) getline() swallows the newline and probably 2) you read only one line at a time.