Converting to lowercase and counting words (pointers)

[Steveqb14]

Hey everybody. I am writing a program when the beginning it you have to pick which step to preform out of a few steps. Once you choose the step. The user is asked to input what is asked and it should preform it. I have completed most of my steps but the one step giving me a hard time is converting a user inputed sentence into all lowercase letters, and then count the words of it. My program starts out like this if you pick this step

else
if (choice == 3) {

            
/* Gather user's input */

printf("\n You have chosen to convert a sentence to all lowercase letters and count the words\n"
"Enter the sentence: \t");
 gets ( sentence );


            
/* Call the function to convert the whole sentence to lowercase and count the number of words */

lowercase_string ( &sentence);
countSentence ( &sentence);
 } /* End if statement */

this is the easy part in which I presume I did correctly, but now this is where I am getting the problems:

 
 
 
/* Prompts user to enter a sentence and convert it to lowercase and count the number of words */
 
 

void 
 countSentence (char *sentence)
void 
 lowercase_string (char*)
{
printf ("The original string is %s\n", sentence);
 
 lowercase_string (sentence);
printf("The string in lowercase is \"%s\"\n", sentence);
}
 void lowercase_string(char *sentence)
{
while(*sentence)
 {
        
if (*sentence>= 'A' && *sentence <= 'Z')
 {
   *sentence = *sentence + 32;
 }
  sentence++;
 }
}
    
/*Define new variables*/

char *tokenPtr
int i;
int counter = 0;
 {

tokenPtr = strtok( sentence, " \n"); /* Space before new line */

/* continue tokenizing sentence until tokenPtr becomes NULL */
   
while ( tokenPtr ) 
 
  {
     ++counter;
     tokenPtr = strtok( NULL, " \n" ); /* get the next token */

   }  /* end while */

printf("\nThe total number of words is %d\n\n", counter);

 } 
/* End of string

I want to output the original sentence, then the sentence with all lower case letters, then at last output the number of words in the sentence. I declared all my variables up top, and I am wondering where my mistake is. When trying to compile it, I only get syntax errors which I don't understand. Thanks for looking at this at least, and I would really appreciate some help!!!
　
　
　

[laserlight]

It is good to see that you posted your code in code tags, but please post it without any extra markup (e.g., your own syntax highlighting, or setting the font colour). When your code is posted as-is within code tags, the forum software will apply its own syntax highlighting and line numbering. Also, post code with proper formatting, in particular, good indentation.

[c99tutorial]

Please post code in plain text format inbetween the code tags. You may have to copy from a plain text program like notepad to remove any special formatting.

If you need help with your lowercase_string function, just post that code by itself. As it stands, you have a lot of other stuff which is probably not related to your question. If you have syntax errors you also have to tell us what the first error was and on what line it occured.

[Steveqb14]

I'm trying to learn how to transfer my code from Microsoft onto here the way I see it, but that seems to be yet another one of my problems. Any suggestions though?

[Steveqb14]

*****My code gets its input from this step.

else if (choice == 3) {
        /*Gather user's input */

            printf("\nYou have chosen to convert a sentence to all lowercase letters and count thewords\n"
                        "Enter the sentence: \t");
                          gets( sentence );

        /*Call the function to convert the whole sentence to lowercase and count thenumber of words */

         lowercase_string( &sentence);
          countSentence( &sentence);

 }/* End if statement */

****This Is the part in which Im getting trouble
/* Prompts user to enter a sentence and convert it tolowercase and count the number of words */
void countSentence (char *sentence)
void lowercase_string (char*)

{
printf ("The original string is %s\n", sentence);

lowercase_string (sentence);

printf("The string in lowercase is\"%s\"\n", sentence);

}

void lowercase_string(char *sentence)
{
                while(*sentence)
                {
                                if(*sentence>= 'A' && *sentence <= 'Z')
                                {
                                                *sentence= *sentence + 32;
                                }
                                sentence++;
                }
}

                /*Definenew variables*/
                                char *tokenPtr;                    // Saying syntax error                                
 int i;
                                intcounter = 0;
                {

                                tokenPtr= strtok( sentence, " \n"); /* Space before new line */

                                /*continue tokenizing sentence until tokenPtr becomes NULL */
                                while( tokenPtr ) 
                                {
                                                ++counter;
                                                tokenPtr = strtok( NULL, "\n" ); /* get the next token */ Saying syntax error
                                }/* end while */

                printf("\nThetotal number of words is %d\n\n", counter);

                } /* End of sentence*/Saying Fatal error unexpected end

[laserlight]

I'm trying to learn how to transfer my code from Microsoft onto here the way I see it, but that seems to be yet another one of my problems. Any suggestions though?

I presume that by "Microsoft" you mean "Microsoft Word", in which case there is a potential problem there: a word processor is usually not an appropriate tool for programming as programming source code should be as-is, not littered with word processor specific markup and such. Rather, use an IDE or a text editor suited to programming.

[Steveqb14]

Sorry for the misunderstanding I am using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 for this program!

[laserlight]

Err... in that case just copy and paste (CTRL+A, CTRL+C, CTRL+V in that sequence could well work) and post the code in [code][/code] bbcode tags.

[Steveqb14]

I did that and it posted the same way as the first one. I have attached my full program!