Hi. I'm quite new to C and I'm supposed to make a program that asks a user for a paragraph, and the program will print the number of vowels in it. I'm only allowed to use printf and scanf functions. Arrays and pointers are not allowed.
And I'm at lost as how to do this. Help?
Since you only want the number of vowels, you certainly do not need an array: you can read the input character by character, checking if the current character is a vowel.
However, you will need to use a pointer since to read a character with scanf, you will have to pass a pointer to the char variable as an argument.
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is there no way to do this without using a pointer?
There is, if you use say, getchar instead of scanf, but you are supposed to use scanf.
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I see. How do you break a loop on the condition that the user hits the enter key?
Check to see if the current character is the newline character, i.e., '\n'.
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