Thread: Need help for class project

the project ask the user to enter a string and then prompts the user to enter a character. the program should display the location of the first occurrence of the character in the string.

for example: the user enters the string "abcde", and the character "d", the program should say the character d is character number 4 in the string.

Code:

#include <iostream.h>



int main()
{
	char line[81];
	char fat[81];
	char* ch_ptr = line;
	char* ch_ftr = fat;
	int count = 0;

	cout << "\nEnter a string of characters:\n\n";
	cin.getline(line, 81);

	cout << "\nEnter one character in the previous string\n\n  ";
	cin.getline(fat, 81);


	

	while (*ch_ptr == 'fat')
	{
		++count;
		++ch_ptr;
	}

	cout << "\nThe string you entered is in the  " <<  count << "space .";

	return 0;
}

okay i got it to count the number of characters but i have no idea how to locate the second character and display the location, if anybody can guide me to the proper way of coding , i would greatly appreciate it.

Another solution is a string object.

Code:

std::getline(cin, stringObject);
cin >> oneChar;

size_t pos = stringObject.find(oneChar);

// pos is the position of the character.

Kuphryn