Thread: Stuck With C Assignment

Hey,

I need to write a program that opens a text file, removes characters such as "@, £" etc which are placed in the middle of words, when an "i" occurs on its own, change it to a capital "I", change the first letter of each sentence to a capital (after every full stop has to be a capital), and then finally write the edited file to a new file

I'm able to write code that opens the existing file and writes it to a new one, however i dont know where to start on writing code to edit the text, i believe that if statements and loops are needed (?)

I'm a total beginner as i'd never programmed before i started my degree, and i'm really stuck.

Any help you could give me would be much appreciated

Here is what i have so far:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>


int main(void)

{

FILE *swbtxt;										// declare file pointer
FILE *destination;

char buffer [10000];

int num;

swbtxt = fopen ("swbtxt.txt","r"); 					// opens the file
destination = fopen("dest.txt", "w");



if ((swbtxt !=NULL) && (destination !=NULL))

	{

	num = fread(buffer,1,10000,swbtxt);					// read text

	fwrite(buffer,1,num,destination);					// write text

	fclose(swbtxt);										// close file
	fclose(destination);								// close file


	printf ("Finished: swbtxt.txt copied to dest.txt");
	printf ("\n%d characters copied\n", num);

	return 0;

	}

		else

		{

		if (swbtxt == NULL)

			printf("Unable to Open swbtxt.txt\n");

		if (destination == NULL)

			printf ("Unable to Open dest.txt\n");

		return 1;

		}

			





}

Im attatched the exisiting file I have to work from