How should I go about doing this?

**Asbestos** · 04-04-2005

Well, I want to create an app that will converter normal letters, into a more complicated form. For instance, "Brick house," would become, "BE are eye sea kay aych oh you es ee." All I need to know in order to do this is just, how to begin. I do not expect you to write this for me so don't think that. I just do not know how to begin, at all. I think I might have to use, "char," or a data file but I don't know how I'll link that to the user inputted sentence, or phrase, and have them edit the file. Well any help would be appreciated.

**Quantum1024** · 04-04-2005

First you'll need all of the phonetic representations stored somewhere. You could just create an array of char pointers and initialize them or load the data from a file.
If you store the phonetic representations in the same order as the coresponding letters apear in the alphabet then whenever you encouter a letter you can use it's value to get a pointer to a phonetic representation.
Consider an array like thi

Code:

char * Array[]={
   "AY",
   BE
};

and then

Code:

if (CharValue>= 65 && <= 90)
   Pointer=Array[CharValue-65];
else if (CharValue>=97 && CharValue<=122)
   Pointer=Array[CharValue-97);

**misplaced** · 04-04-2005

i think the easiest way to go about it is

Code:

;

//EDIT:THIS CODE WON'T WORK - USE CODE IN LAST POST
char *words[] = {"aye", "be", "sea", .....}
char str[] = "brick house";

for(int i = 0; i < strlen(str); i++)
	cout << (str[i] - 'A' /* - 1 ??*/) << endl;

**Asbestos** · 04-04-2005

Ah, thank you guys so very much. I'll start working on this right away, and post if I run into any major problems.

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