Thread: Writing a function for the specifics..?

Can anyone help me write a function that does the following, any ideas...?

1.Its supposed to capitalize every letter at the beginning of a sentence.
2. Insert a space after every punctuation mark except for dashes (-) and single quote (').
3. Capitalize every letter after each of the punctuation marks.

can anyone help, plsss, sugestions ideas...?

My code below, ok ppl im asking you to help, not do everything then!

Code:

void makeproper ( char *in)

{

 

     

if ( islower( *in) ){

*in = toupper( *in );

                }

     

     while ( *in ){

          

          if( ispunct( *in++ ) ){

              if( *in != '\'' && *in != '-' ){ /* next must be space */

              /**need_space = 1;

              need_upper = 1;**/



              putchar (' ');

                      if ( islower( *in ) ){

                      *in = toupper( *in );}

                }



                else{

                /**need_space = 0;

                need_upper = 1;**/

                if ( islower( *in ) ){

                *in = toupper( *in );

                }

                }

                }



else

if(ispunct( *in++ ) && isspace( *in++ ))

{

if( *in != '\'' && *in != '-' ){ 

    

    if ( islower( *in ) )

           {

                *in = toupper( *in );

                }

}



}



++in;    

           }/**end while**/





} /**end of make proper**/

1. First figure out how to find the start of a sentence. That might be specially defined in the assignment.
2. Char by char analysis is probably a good way to go about it.
3. See above suggestion.

Your horrible indention is going to make this pretty hard on yourself since you won't be able to easily follow the code.

Read and learn:

Code:

void makeproper (char *in)
{
	if ( islower( *in) )
	{
		*in = toupper( *in );
	}

	while ( *in )
	{
		if( ispunct( *in++ ) )
		{
			if( *in != '\'' && *in != '-' )
			{ /* next must be space */
				/**need_space = 1;
				need_upper = 1;**/
				putchar (' ');

				if ( islower( *in ) )
				{
					*in = toupper( *in );
				}
			}
			else
			{
				/**need_space = 0;
				need_upper = 1;**/
				if ( islower( *in ) )
				{
					*in = toupper( *in );
				}
			}
		}
		else
			if(ispunct( *in++ ) && isspace( *in++ ))
			{
				if( *in != '\'' && *in != '-' )
				{
					if ( islower( *in ) )
					{
						*in = toupper( *in );
					}
				}
			}
		++in;    
	}/**end while**/
} /**end of make proper**/

Removed horrible multiple lines between each line of code and fixed indentation.

Code:

if ( islower( *in ) )
{
   *in = toupper( *in );
}

you do not need if - toupper will do this check anyway