Thread: do while loop for chars

I have created a program where by a user inputs a set of upper case characters and then the program carries out a set of tasks based on the input.

What I'd like to know is how do I implement a do while loop so if the user enters either a number or a lower case letter then the program should jump to the end and tell the user that they have entered an invalid input.

The name of the array that stores the char's is called string.

Code:

do {

//code here




} while (string = "A", "B", "C", "D") //etc etc

x is their input say and so now you write it as:

Code:

do
{
  if(x!="A" && x!="B" && x!="C".......&& x!="z")
{
 return(1)
}
}while ...............

Note, "A" is a string, and consists of the letter 'A' followed by a terminating null character. You can not compare strings with == or !=, you must use strcmp. If, however, you want to compare individual characters, you need to put the character in single quotes, like 'A'. For your specific problem, you can use the isupper function, which returns true if the character is an upper case letter, and false for everything else:

Code:

#include <ctype.h>  // needed for the isupper() function

do {
    some stuff
    x = read char from user
} while (!isupper(x));

Code:

do {
   //  carry out tasks



} while (!isupper(string));

I get a string is an undeclared identifier? but string has already been declared and is inside the do while function.

do while is not a function, though the curly brackets it uses do create a separate scope (an "inner" scope that the outer scopes can't see). If you declare a variable inside the curly brackets and try to use it outside (i.e. in the "while" condition of the do while loop), then that variable is not visible. Move the declaration outside the loop.