Thread: Help! Defining a Function

  1. #1
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    Help! Defining a Function

    Hello,

    What I had to do in the code is to define the function seperateWords so that it separates whole sentences/phrases. For instance "I need help" would come out as "I","need","help".

    Could anyone please find the faults in the following solution?

    Code:
    Given:
    
    
    
    #include <iostream>
    
    using namespace std;
    
        int main (void) {
        vector<string> lines, words;
        lines.push_back("Darth Archos");
        lines.push_back("is the");
        lines.push_back("Lord of the Sith");
        words = seperateWords(lines);
        cout << "The seperated words are:" << endl;
        for (unsigned i = 0; i < words.size(); i++) {
            cout << words[i] << ", ";
        }
        cout << endl;
        return 0;
    }
    vector <string> seperateWords (vector<string> lines) {
        vector<string > words;
        
        //Separating stuff goes here
    	
    	string toFind = " "; 			//find whitespace
    	string replaceWith = "\n"; 		//replace with new line
    	}
    	for(unsigned i=0;i < lines.size(); i++) //loop through first string
    	{
    	<< lines[i] 				//read from first string
    	words.push_back('str[i]')		//add to string "words"
    	}
    	for(unsigned x=0;x < lines.size(); x++)	//loop through second string
    	{
    	<< lines[x]				//read from second string
    	words.push_back(str[x])			//add to string "words"
    	{
    	for(unsigned y=0;y < lines.size(); y++)	//loop through third string
    	{
    	<< lines[y]				//read from third string
    	words.push_back(str[y])			//add to string "words"
    	}
    	return words;
    }

  2. #2
    Unregistered User Yarin's Avatar
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    Yup, you need to put
    Code:
    vector<string> seperateWords (vector<string>);
    above main().

  3. #3
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    Well, this ain't C++

    What are you trying to do: take a string ("I need help") and break it into three strings or do you want to keep it as one string and simply replace spaces with newlines, so it becomes "I\nneed\nhelp"?

    If it is the second, then this algorithm might help: replace_copy

    For example, replacing lower-case a's with upper-case A's:
    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    #include <string>
    #include <algorithm>
    #include <iterator>
    using namespace std;
    
    int main()
    {
        string s1("I have a dream");
        string s2;
        replace_copy(s1.begin(), s1.end(), back_inserter(s2), 'a', 'A');
        cout << s1 << '\n' << s2 << '\n';
    }
    I might be wrong.

    Thank you, anon. You sure know how to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away.
    Quoted more than 1000 times (I hope).

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