program is case-sensitive

I wrote a small program that counts words, and looks for specific words, but the problem is that it's case-sensitive.

So if the search requested "one" and the file contains "ONE" the count for "one" would register as 0.

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

int main(){
    ifstream countwords;
    string word, specificword;
    int counter = 0, checkword = 0;

cout<<"Type the word you want to count in the file.\n";
cin>>specificword;
cin.ignore();

countwords.open( "wordcount.txt" );
    while ( countwords>>word ){
          if ( word == specificword ){
              checkword++;
              }
              counter++;
          }
    countwords.close();
   
          cout<<"\n\nThe file contains "<<counter<<" words.\n";
          cout<<checkword<<" of them is "<<specificword<<".\n\n";
          cin.get();
          }

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use toupper or to lower (or write your own function to convert a string to all uppercase or all lowercase).

no, use stricmp


work on indention....you're close, but no cigar

Code:

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while(1){
        int x = 12;
        x = x * x / x;

        if(x){
                x = 0;
        }  // <-- put this brace under the first character of the keyword it "belongs" to
}          // read that ^^^^^

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lol. thanks. I use Dev-C++ and i just let it do whatever it wants with the indetation. :rolleyes:

Except stricmp() isn't a standard function.

What's the deal with kernel indentation anyway. How can people think this is more readable:

Code:

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if(x){
  ...
}

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than this:

Code:

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if(x)
{
  ...
}

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The block structure is so much clearer in the latter.

Anyway, that's my opinion. Like it or hate it!

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Salem

Except stricmp() isn't a standard function.

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oops

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Magos

The block structure is so much clearer in the latter.

Anyway, that's my opinion. Like it or hate it!

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i agree, but since that's how he had it, i figured i'd stick with it.


i've been looking at java source lately and it really bugs me....
perhaps i will write a program to fix the code

Quote:

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I wrote a small program that counts words, and looks for specific words, but the problem is that it's case-sensitive.

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you can also write a custom char_traits object and pass it as the second template parameter of basic_string to override the default comparison semantics.

>> ....you can also write a custom char_traits object
This aught to be in a FAQ somewhere....
http://www.josuttis.com/libbook/stri...tring.hpp.html

Or for case insensitive operations on any character sequence:
http://www.josuttis.com/libbook/string/iter2.cpp.html

gg