Help please

[adrian_ang]

Hi, have the below mention design, anyone know how to write the program or can direct me to any help? Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks. Take for example an input string "This is *swaped* here no change" will produce an output string " This is *depaws* here no change".

initialise variables to be used
read in string to be tested
loop while end of the string is reached
if swap is off then
copy characters from input string to output string
if end
if asterisk is found then
determine the start and stop position of swap
set swap on
if end
if swap is on then
execute the swap
set swap off if swap completed
if end
loopend
write out the input string
write out the output string

[Salem]

Step 1 - write a program which reads input, and prints the input back to the user unchanged.
Step 2 - add code to print a message whenever a '*' is seen
Step 3 - print the number of characters counted between two adjacent '*'

That should get you going.

[adrian_ang]

But i dont know how to write the program and I never learn this before, this is actually an assignment from my teacher.

[marsh]

Start reading tutorials. If you have never done this before tell that to you teacher.

[MystWind]

what do you want us to say ? do you want us to write your whole program or so ?
this website has a great turtourial , if you would read that , I'm sure half of your questions will be awnserd .

p.s.define your questions more presice please , I barely know what you Xpect us to do.

[Salem]

> But i dont know how to write the program
Have you ever written a C program before?

Surely your teacher has gone over input and output, even if it's using gets(). At least show what you know along those guidelines I posted so we can best help you with the bit you're actually stuck on.

[adrian_ang]

I dont know how to write the program at all.

[Xipher]

The board rules/guidlines state we aren't going to do the work for you. If you don't know how to do the assingment, I would suggest talking to your teacher, because if your in a programming class and aren't learning HOW, to program, I think their might be a problem.

[Salem]

> I dont know how to write the program at all.

But you've done the printf("hello world\n"); program right?

And perhaps extended it to printf("hello %s\n", name );

[cerin]

People in C++ classes do printf stuff? Am I missing something?

[Xipher]

People in C++ classes do printf stuff? Am I missing something?

Ill covert it to C++ to see if he has used it then
something like

cout << "Hello World\n";
cout << "Hello World" << endl;
std::cout << "Hello World" << std::endl;
std::cout << "Hello" << " World" << std::endl;

any of those can do Hello World, so I want to cover all the bases. Their are more, but those are basic ones I would say.