Thread: Name to Email

Hi!

I am writing a very simple program that turns someone's name (written first name last name) into an email address in the following format ==>> [email protected]. However when I run the program the output is like this
=> first name(except first initial) [email protected].
Below is the code:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>


int main()


{
    char first;
    char ch;



printf("enter your firstname lastname:");


    first  = getchar();

    while( (ch=getchar())!=' ')
        printf("%c", ch);

    while((ch=getchar())==' ')
        ;


    do
    { 
        printf("%c",ch);
    }while((ch=getchar())!='\n');

    printf("_%c",first);
printf("@student.smc.edu\n");

    return 0;

}

And the output:

enter your firstname lastname: lisa smith

[email protected]



It should say [email protected] . Can somebody please help me fix the code, so it prints [email protected] ? Thank you!

Thank you! However, we are not permitted to use arrays (do to the fact that 90% of the people in the class I'm taking don't even know what an array is.) So I'm assuming I'll have to fix my code somehow so the loop (which causes the getchar to read letters) creates an output where the characters making up the first name are placed after the lastname_, though when I attempt to do that, I get stuck in an infinite but static loop.

Actually, I am to read them in last first order. ==>> [email protected] <<== Like that

Sure

Assignment.
You are to ask a user for first name followed by last name.
Example:
Lisa Smith
Your program should get this data and make an e-mail like this
[email protected]

A simple way to do this is to have two char arrays: lastname[50], and firstname[50], and use them. Order won't be a problem. Remember to add the underline between them, and then the suffix: @blank.com.

Use %s for the scanf() and printf() format code for both strings.

And you're set.

I was able to get the entire last name to print (using a do while loop), but when I attempt to do the same thing for the first name, I get an unwanted result.

Thank you. I will just ask my professor if he could make an exception and allow me to use an array. (We were supposed to do this with whatever we have learned at this point. He hasn't taught us arrays yet, though I do know how to use them) Though I was told it can be done without arrays.

Maybe I'm missing something really trivial, or some little trick to solving this without arrays, but I don't think so.

I see nothing that forbids use of arrays in that assignment, nor the use of recursion. Has your professor covered either of those topics yet? Have you talked about strings? Can you use those? A string is really just an array of characters, so if strings are okay, then so are arrays in this case. There is simply no reasonable way to store a string of data like a first name, without an array.

Oh! You can't use arrays!!

Really?

When you start programming, isn't it time the students learned about the basic data structures they can use in programming? Frame a wooden house, but you can't use a hammer or a nail, or a saw, or ...

What has the instructor hinted or stated, that you SHOULD use?

No, he has not taught us about any of the things you have mentioned (but I DO know how to use them). All we have learned at this point is loops (while, for, do while) , if else statements, get char, printf, scanf, pointers,... Basic stuff. We are to learn about arrays next week, immediately after the assignment is due. The last time I did an assignment with arrays, he made me redo it, using a while loop. And I am wondering, how is it possible to do that with the last name but not the first name? Sorry, I'm such a programming n00b, I started about 2 weeks ago.

The assignment CAN be done with just char's, but it's like building a fence where you have to mine the metal and forge the wire you need, then grow the trees and mill them down to make the fence posts.

Maybe I'm missing something here - not used to thinking along these lines.

It's not bad to occasionally do something mundane without one or more of your usual tools. It keeps the mind keen.

Originally Posted by sonjared

It's not bad to occasionally do something mundane without one or more of your usual tools. It keeps the mind keen.

You'll change your mind the first time you need to hang wall board, and have one arm in a cast and sling.

It DOES refresh your dictionary of cuss words quite keenly, however.