Randomizing a person's name

Hello,

I'm using some of the lines of code from the tutorials on strings but I have a question.


Is it possible to take the user's entry of first and last names and shuffle it? Including the location of where the space is?

A finger pointing towards the direction of my answer would be most appreciated.

One possibility would be to use the C strtok() function to separate the strings out into the first and last names:

Code:

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/* Assume the first and last name is stored within a C++ string, temp_str */
temp_ptr = strtok(temp_str.c_str(), " \n");
/* temp_ptr points to first name */
temp_ptr = strtok(NULL, " \n");
/* temp_ptr now points to surname */

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That isn't a very 'clean' way of doing it if you ask me - too much mixing of C with C++ for my liking. You could alternatively use the istream::getline() method. but parsing the string using strtok is probably the single easiest way of doing it.

Once you have the individual first and last names of a person, shuffling them is easy.