Thread: Is there a quicker way to do this?

Define "taking forever". You mean for you to type the code? Why not use a loop, with the message in a string/char array?

Originally Posted by laserlight

Use a loop

I could do that, but I don't understand how the loop would work.

Originally Posted by tabstop

Define "taking forever". You mean for you to type the code? Why not use a loop, with the message in a string/char array?

By "taking forever" I did mean for me to type the code.

Originally Posted by PYROMANIAC702

I could do that, but I don't understand how the loop would work.

Loops tend to work by repeating all those repetitive statements for you. You have a print, and a sleep, then a print, then a sleep, then a print, then a sleep, then a print, then a sleep, etc. So put the print and the sleep in a loop and you're done.

Originally Posted by AndrewHunter

Well there is no time like the present to learn. Try reading Tutorial 3: Loops

This is becoming quite the pattern of wanting to be spoon fed the C language one item at a time...............

When I said I don't understand how the loop would work, I meant I don't know how to implement the loop for my situation. I know how to do a loop. The part I don't understand is how to go from one letter to another in the loop.

Originally Posted by PYROMANIAC702

When I said I don't understand how the loop would work, I meant I don't know how to implement the loop for my situation. I know how to do a loop. The part I don't understand is how to go from one letter to another in the loop.

There's this magic operator called ++ you may want to look into. You want to print the 0th letter. Then you want to print the 1st letter. Then you want to print the 2nd letter. Then you want to print the 3rd letter.

Originally Posted by tabstop

There's this magic operator called ++ you may want to look into. You want to print the 0th letter. Then you want to print the 1st letter. Then you want to print the 2nd letter. Then you want to print the 3rd letter.

I don't know how to explain this, but I'll try. Say a = 0 and then I did a++, a would go up 1 every cycle in the loop. That is with an integer. I have no clue on how to get it to go up one letter every time though. Like for it to go from T to h to i to s. What would tell it to do that?

EDIT: I'll read that now, Andrew. I forgot to refresh.

How do you reference the 0th letter of a message?

Originally Posted by PYROMANIAC702

When I said I don't understand how the loop would work, I meant I don't know how to implement the loop for my situation. I know how to do a loop. The part I don't understand is how to go from one letter to another in the loop.

What is a string? It's an array of characters... Arrays are accessed by indexes...
What's a loop? It's a repeated function that uses indexes to control it's position and exit.

See a connection there?

The logic is easy:

Code:

for(each letter in the string) {  //and i++ after each loop
  print(the next letter;   //stringArray[i]
  sleep(1);
}