Thread: menus and strings

  1. #1
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    Question menus and strings

    I have an assignment to have user enter 10 strings and then create menu to
    -print original strings
    -print string in ASCII order
    -print strings in order of increasing length
    -print strings in order of length of first word

    This is how far I have gotten, I cannot figure out the last three. Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks,
    #include <stdio.h>
    int main()
    {
    char message1[80], message2[80], message3[80], message4[80 message5[80];
    char message6[80], message7[80], message8[80], message9[80 message10[80];
    int opselect;
    printf("Enter a string:\n");
    gets(message1);
    printf("Enter another string:\n");
    gets(message2);
    printf("Enter another string:\n");
    gets(message3);
    printf("Enter another string:\n");
    gets(message4);
    printf("Enter another string:\n");
    gets(message5);
    printf("Enter another string:\n");
    gets(message6);
    printf("Enter another string:\n");
    gets(message7);
    printf("Enter another string:\n");
    gets(message8);
    printf("Enter another string:\n");
    gets(message9);
    printf("Enter another string:\n");
    gets(message10);

    printf("Enter a select code:");
    printf("\n 1 To display all strings input");
    printf("\n 2 To display the strings in ASCII order");
    printf("\n 3 To display the strings in order of increasing length");
    printf)"\n 4 To display the strings in order of the length of the first word in the string");
    printf("\n 5 Quit");
    scanf("%d", &opselect);
    switch (opselect)
    {
    case 1:
    printf("your messages are :\n");
    puts(message1);
    puts(message2);
    puts(message3);
    puts(message4);
    puts(message5);
    puts(message6);
    puts(message7);
    puts(message8);
    puts(message9);
    puts(message10);
    break;
    case 2:

    return 0;

    }

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    Yikes man! You need to learn what a multidimensional array is, and what a for() loop is!

    char messages[NUMBER_OF_MESSAGES][MESSAGE_LENGTH];
    int x;

    for( x = 0; x < NUMBER_OF_MESSAGES; x++ )
    {
    ... scan message into "messages[x]", or print message
    }

    You can print the messages like:

    printf("%s", messages[x] );

    Quzah.
    Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

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    Look up the functions in string.h.

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    Thanks,
    I think I have the input straightened out. Here is my new code:#include <stdio.h>
    int main()
    {
    char messages[number_of_messages][message_length];

    int opselect;
    int x;

    for( x = 0; x < NUMBER_OF_MESSAGES; x++ )

    {

    printf("Enter a string:\n");
    scanf("%c",&messages[x]);
    }

    printf("Enter a select code:");
    printf("\n 1 To display all strings input");
    printf("\n 2 To display the strings in ASCII order");
    printf("\n 3 To display the strings in order of increasing length");
    printf)"\n 4 To display the strings in order of the length of the first word in the string");
    printf("\n 5 Quit");
    scanf("%d", &opselect);
    switch (opselect)
    {
    case 1:
    for(x=0; x <=10;++i}
    printf("\n %s",messages[x]
    break;
    case 2:


    return 0;

    }

    My next question is this ASCII order? What is this?

    Thanks,

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