array design

Hey everyone,
I'm doing the following problem:

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Create an algorithm that'll accept a person's name as "lastname,firstname", and then display the name as "first name(3spaces)lastname"

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So I was wondering if anyone had any good starting comments, I wrote this whole elaborate program until I realized I was using char as if they were able to dynamically allocate memory...yeah...so...that sucked :)

I was just wondering if anyone could toss some hints of where to start (over)...thanks!

Hmmm...

I'd say you should probably look into strings... :)

Code:

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#include<iostream>
#include<cstring>
using namespace std;

char* get_first_name(char*);
char* get_last_name (char*); 

int main( )
{

    char full_name[20], first_name[20], last_name[20];

    cout << "Enter last name then first name, seperated by comma: ";

    cin.getline(full_name, 20);

    strcpy(first_name, get_first_name(full_name));

    strcpy(last_name,  get_last_name(full_name));

    cout << "\nYour full name is: ";

    cout << first_name << "  " << last_name; 

    return 0;

}

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Code:

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char[20] full_name, first_name, last_name;

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Unless I'm mistaken, you mean . . .

Code:

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char full_name[20], first_name[20], last_name[20];

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yesss.. i knew someone was going to catch this error.. i knew something was wierd.. didn't hit me until i got into work last night and started thinking about it.. good catch dwk.. i'll edit for correctness.