Can anyone please help me with my code?

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>


struct month{
        char monthEng[10];
        char monthSpan[11];
        int orders;
        int numberDays;
};

// put your function declarations here
int find_day(struct month *m, char *user, int day);
void intoStruct(struct month m[]);


int main(void) {
        struct month months[12];
        intoStruct(months);
        int enter_day;
        char enter_month;
        int monthLeng[] = {31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31};
        const char monthschar[12][10] = { "january", "february", "march", "april", "may", "june", "july", "august", "september", "october", "november", "december" };
        int i=0;

        // code starts here for me.
        printf("What month: "); //asking for month
        fflush(stdout);
        scanf("%s", &enter_month);
        printf("What day: "); //asking for day
        fflush(stdout);
        scanf("%d", &enter_day);

        if(enter_day > 31 || enter_day < 1)
        {
                printf("The entered day of month does not exist. Which was %d", enter_day);
                fflush(stdout);
        }
        // Checking to see if the enter_month is == to english or spanish
        for(i = 0; i < 12; i++)
        {
                if(strcmp(enter_month, monthschar[i]) == 0)
                {
                        strcpy(monthschar[i], enter_month);
                        printf("The month %s", enter_month);
                        fflush(stdout);
                }
                else if(strcmp(enter_month, monthschar[i]) == 0)
                {
                        printf("The month %s", enter_month);
                }
                else
                {
                        printf("That month cannot be found either in english or in spanish, please check your spelling.");
                        fflush(stdout);
                }
        }
        // Calling the functions

        int findDayCount(m, enter_month, enter_day);




        /* English to Spanish
        *
        */







        return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

int find_day(struct month *m, char *user, int day){

}

void intoStruct(struct month m[]){

}

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So what i'm trying to do is type in a month, i.e. january, and then make sure they typed in write, but then i gotta see if they typed it in spanish and see if they got it write, but if it typed it in a totally weird word like "NoMonth", then it will say "There is no month by "NoMonth" in English or in Spanish." or smething like that.... then my friend proposed that i should also say something... "January 31st the 31st day of the whole year.".... I dunno, been working on this for a bit, but I can't get around it. Can anyone help me?

Thanks

So which exact bits is it that you can not solve?

The more specific you are, the easier it is for us to help you with the specific problem you are having, rather than trying to guess the part you are struggling with.

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Mats

Sorry, haha I'm just freakiing out haha. I gotta calm down. Well the first part is that. I realized that it might be easier if i made a declare function so i named it intoStruct(struct month *m), where it can hold the months easier. Then find_the_day function is to find the day of the whole year.

But what I'm really struggling on is my main body. I can seem to compare the two strings. Month from user and month in the code. I thought my code seemed write, but something terrible happens. It doesn't return what i want it to. Also i'm trying to make sure that if they type over 31 for days, it will say there are no 31 days for that month, or for feburary, there is no 30 days in that month, etc. I dunno, I'm at the point of confusion, but thanks for replying very quickly, its really calming me down and relaxing me. Just knowing that there are people that are very helpful. Thanks you very much.

I don't see anything immediately wrong with your strcmp() calls, so perhaps you can describe the difference between what you expect, and what you actually get.

Let's solve one problem at a time - it is often very easy to get carried away and try to write too much code at once.

By the way, do you know the different between the word WRITE and RIGHT? Sorry to be pedantic, but it's actually quite confusing when people use a word that sounds the same but spelled differently [and I do apologize profoundly if it happens to be that you are using a speech-to-type machine because you are somehow unable to use your hands to type].

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Mats

Okay! :D So, in the main I got this

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int main(void) {
        struct month months[12];
        intoStruct(months);
        int enter_day;
        char enter_month;
        int monthLeng[] = {31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31};
        const char monthschar[12][10] = { "january", "february", "march", "april", "may", "june", "july", "august", "september", "october", "november", "december" };
        int i=0;

        // code starts here for me.
        printf("What month: "); //asking for month
        fflush(stdout);
        scanf("%s", &enter_month);
        printf("What day: "); //asking for day
        fflush(stdout);
        scanf("%d", &enter_day);

        if(enter_day > 31 || enter_day < 1)
        {
                printf("The entered day of month does not exist. Which was %d", enter_day);
                fflush(stdout);
        }
        // Checking to see if the enter_month is == to english or spanish
        for(i = 0; i < 12; i++)
        {
                if(strcmp(enter_month, monthschar[i]) == 0)
                {
                        strcpy(monthschar[i], enter_month);
                        printf("The month %s", enter_month);
                        fflush(stdout);
                }
                else if(strcmp(enter_month, monthschar[i]) == 0)
                {
                        printf("The month %s", enter_month);
                }
                else
                {
                        printf("That month cannot be found either in english or in spanish, please check your spelling.");
                        fflush(stdout);
                }
        }
        // Calling the functions

        int findDayCount(m, enter_month, enter_day);

        return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

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When i run the program it asks me to type in a month and I type in "JAnUary", and it asks me to type in the day, so I type in 31. Since "JAnUary" is not the same as "january", I wanted it to tell me that there is smething wrong with what I typed in, and if was equal to each other, then I would want it to say that I typed in the month "january" and the day. But for some reason, it doesn't even do that.

Use the tolower() function on the string before you compare it, that way whatever case the user enters it in, it'll still compare properly.

And can structures be passed to a function? I don't think they can.

I'm still working on it, just reading it line by line and trying to see what happens, or what goes wrong. I am very grateful that you are offering your help to me. I really appreciate it.

See what I mean about being specific? If you had described that in the first place, it would have been easy to answer.

If your compiler (actually the C runtime) supports it, stricmp or strcasecmp will compare strings regardless of case. If you can't use stricmp or strcasecmp, then you need to convert each letter in the string to lowercase with tolower, then compare the string.

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Mats

Is it just me or are the if and elseif comparisons in the for loop exactly the same?

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Originally Posted by mmcg

Is it just me or are the if and elseif comparisons in the for loop exactly the same?

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Yes, I think so to (at least in essense) - I think it's meant to be one English and one Spanish loop.

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Mats

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Originally Posted by mmcg

Use the tolower() function on the string before you compare it, that way whatever case the user enters it in, it'll still compare properly.

And can structures be passed to a function? I don't think they can.

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tolower() function? Would it be something like this?

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tolower(string1, string2); // String1 being from the user, string2 from months or...
/*...*/
tolower(string1, "january");

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I have a feeling that there is more to it than that, but is it something like that?

Okay, everything runs smoothly all to the for loop, once it hits for loop. I think the program goes crazy, or I go crazy. lol

My mindreading is a bit poor today - probably the horrible cold I've got - I can't properly see the code you have. Could you perhaps post the latest version?

And in case you haven't got that, tolower takes ONE CHARACTER and if the input is an upper case A-Z, it returns the lower-case variant (it may also do foreign alphabeticals).

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Mats

Code:

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for(i = 0; i < 12; i++)
        {
                if(strcasecmp(enter_month, monthschar[i]) == 0)
                {
                        strcpy(monthschar[i], enter_month);
                        printf("The month &#37;s", enter_month);
                        fflush(stdout);
                }
                else if(strcmp(enter_month, monthschar[i]) == 0)
                {
                        printf("The month %s", enter_month);
                }
                else
                {
                        printf("That month cannot be found either in english or in spanish, please check your spelling.");
                        fflush(stdout);
                }
        }

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So I tried what you preferred which was strcasecmp() and it can read it. So YAY!!! I don't need to worry about capitalization and stuff :D Thanks to you.... but....

I get a warning in a few places. Not sure what these errors mean. I get the warning at this part of the for loops

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if(strcasecmp(enter_month, monthschar[i]) == 0)

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It says "passing argument 1 of "strcasecmp" makes pointer from integer without a cast".

Another warning at

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strcpy(monthschar[i], enter_month);

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And this one says two warnings.
1. "passing argument 2 of "strcpy" makes pointer from integer without a cast".
2. "passing argument 1 of "strcpy" discards qualifiers from pointer target type".

You are trying to copy the entered month into your const array.

Code:

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char enter_month;

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is ONE character - perhaps not enough to hold all the characters of "january"?

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Mats

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Originally Posted by matsp

My mindreading is a bit poor today - probably the horrible cold I've got - I can't properly see the code you have. Could you perhaps post the latest version?

And in case you haven't got that, tolower takes ONE CHARACTER and if the input is an upper case A-Z, it returns the lower-case variant (it may also do foreign alphabeticals).

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Mats

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I'm sorry to hear about your cold. I hope you get better.

here is my latest code for the "for loop"

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for(i = 0; i < 12; i++)
        {
                if(strcasecmp(enter_month, monthschar[i]) == 0)
                {
                        strcpy(monthschar[i], enter_month);
                        {
                                /* check if the days in the month match
                                * if day that was entered is 31, then the months should ONLY be
                                * january, march, may, july, august, october, december.
                                * then it will call the function find_the_day
                                * otherwise it will go continue on with the program.
                                */
                        }
                        printf("The month %s", enter_month);
                        fflush(stdout);
                }
                else if(strcmp(enter_month, monthschar[i]) == 0)
                {
                        printf("The month %s", enter_month);
                }
                else
                {
                        printf("That month cannot be found either in english or in spanish, please check your spelling.");
                        fflush(stdout);
                }
                return -1;
        }

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You are way behind me. Have you fixed the "enter_month" variable to hold at least 10 characters?

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Mats

Quote:

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Originally Posted by matsp

You are trying to copy the entered month into your const array.

Code:

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char enter_month;

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is ONE character - perhaps not enough to hold all the characters of "january"?

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Mats

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OoO that fixed it... I went back to type where i declared the type. and it changed it from

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char enter_month;

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to...

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char enter_month[12];

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Thank you for fixing that for me.

but

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strcpy(monthschar[i], enter_month);

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still says that i have a warning. And the warning says "passing argument 1 from "strcpy" discards qualifiers from pointer target type"

Is it because I'm trying to copy my enter_month into a string, so should I use &enter_month?

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Originally Posted by dlwlsdn

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strcpy(monthschar[i], enter_month);

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still says that i have a warning. And the warning says "passing argument 1 from "strcpy" discards qualifiers from pointer target type"

Is it because I'm trying to copy my enter_month into a string, so should I use &enter_month?

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No, it's telling you that "You told me you weren't going to modify the monthschar array, but now you are passing it to a function that doesn't guarantee that it's not going to change it" (and if strcpy does what it says on the tin, it SHOULD modify the destination variable!). Why do you want to store what the user entered into the array of month names?

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Mats

okay i fixed that problem too, i switch it from

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strcpy(monthschar[i], enter_month);

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to....

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strcpy(enter_month, monthschar[i]);

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reading over and over again, something sounded wrong. and Now it says copy monthschar[i], into enter_month. That way it will be from the array :D weee :DThank you so much. Hmm.. but there is still a problem that I'm facing. or a dilemma. And that is to make the days in the month matching the month. Meaning that feburary has 28 days (29 including leap year), but if someone typed in 31, it should leave all the months that don't have 31 days in it.

I was thinking about writing a if statement in the strcpy.

hey matsp, I have favor to ask of you. I have a feeling I won't be done by the night. So i was wondering if you can watch this forum, for more posts from me? After like I update my code and if I run into a problem? If not, its totally fine, you've helped me solve like the problem I've been having for the past like 2 hours so. hehe, at the moment your like a life saver. ^^

i was wondering about my code. I realized I haven't been using my struct names. Like monthEng and monthSpan. Now I'm at the point of confusion because I wanted to learn how to use the struct members. haha.

To use an element in a structure, you use the following:

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structname.elementname

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So it's the name of the structure, then a fullstop, then the name of the element in the structure. Here's an example:

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printf("Andrew's age is %d.",andrew.age);

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In the above example, the structure is called 'andrew', and the element in the structure is 'age'.

So I got pretty far in the past... many hours haha. But this what I got, but I'm still having some trouble. There are 3 things going wrong. If the month is a correct month in spanish or in english, it should return -1, and if the day is out of bounds, then it should return -1 as well. And then, if they wrote like february 28, then it will come out as 31 + 28 = 59 day of the month. I want to be able to do that, how do I do that? If your curious, here's my code... its quite long so.. please, if you want to post a shorter one, let me know.

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>


struct month{
        char nameEng[10];
        char nameSpan[11];
        int order;
        int numDays;
};

// put your function declarations here
int findDayCount(struct month *m, char *user, int day);
void initStruct(struct month month[]);


int main(void) {
        // declare other variables here
        struct month months[12];
        initStruct(months);
        int enter_day;
        char enter_month[11];
        int x;

        // lots of your code here
        printf("What month: "); //asking for month
        fflush(stdout);
        scanf("&#37;s", enter_month);
        printf("What day: "); //asking for day
        fflush(stdout);
        scanf("%d", &enter_day);


        x = findDayCount(months, enter_month, enter_day);
        printf("That day is the #%d in the entire year out 365 days.", x);

        return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

int findDayCount(struct month *m, char *user, int day){
        int total=0;
        int i;
        // Checking to see if the enter_month is == to english or spanish
        for(i = 0; i < 12; i++)
        {
                if(strcasecmp(user, m[i].nameEng) == 0)
                {
                        strcpy(user, m[i].nameEng);
                        printf("You entered in the month, %s, in english.\n", user);
                        fflush(stdout);
                }
                else if(strcasecmp(user, m[i].nameSpan) == 0)
                {
                        strcpy(user, m[i].nameSpan);
                        printf("You enterd in the mont, %s, in spanish.\n", user);
                        fflush(stdout);
                }
                else
                {
                        printf("That month cannot be found either in english or in spanish, please check your spelling.\n");
                        fflush(stdout);
                        return -1;
                }
        }
        // Checking to see if the days are in the right range.
        if(day > 31 || day < 1)
        {
                printf("There are no %d days in that month.\n", day);
                fflush(stdout);
        }
        else if(day > 28 && (user == "february" || user == "febrero"))
        {
                printf("There are no %d in the month, %s. There is only 28.\n", day, user);
                fflush(stdout);
        }
        else if(day > 30 && (user == "april" || user == "june" || user == "august" || user == "september" || user == "november"))
        {
                printf("There are no %d in the month, %s. There are only 30 days.", day, user);
                fflush(stdout);
        }
        else if(day < 1)
        {
                printf("There are is no zero day. Did you type in the day correctly?\n");
                fflush(stdout);
        }
        total = m[i].numDays + day;
        return(total);
}


void initStruct(struct month month[]){
        int monthLeng[] = {31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31};

        strcpy(month[0].nameEng, "January");
        strcpy(month[0].nameSpan, "Enero");
        month[0].numDays = monthLeng[0];
        month[0].order = 1;

        strcpy(month[1].nameEng, "February");
        strcpy(month[2].nameSpan, "Febrero");
        month[1].numDays = monthLeng[1];
        month[1].order = 2;

        strcpy(month[2].nameEng, "March");
        strcpy(month[2].nameSpan, "Marzo");
        month[2].numDays = monthLeng[2];
        month[2].order = 3;

        strcpy(month[3].nameEng, "April");
        strcpy(month[3].nameSpan, "Abril");
        month[3].numDays = monthLeng[3];
        month[3].order = 4;

        strcpy(month[4].nameEng, "May");
        strcpy(month[4].nameSpan, "Mayo");
        month[4].numDays = monthLeng[4];
        month[4].order = 5;

        strcpy(month[5].nameEng, "June");
        strcpy(month[5].nameSpan, "Junio");
        month[5].numDays = monthLeng[5];
        month[5].order = 6;

        strcpy(month[6].nameEng, "July");
        strcpy(month[6].nameSpan, "Julio");
        month[6].numDays = monthLeng[6];
        month[6].order = 7;

        strcpy(month[7].nameEng, "August");
        strcpy(month[7].nameSpan, "Agosto");
        month[7].numDays = monthLeng[7];
        month[7].order = 8;

        strcpy(month[8].nameEng, "September");
        strcpy(month[8].nameSpan, "Septiembre");
        month[8].numDays = monthLeng[8];
        month[8].order = 9;

        strcpy(month[9].nameEng, "Octber");
        strcpy(month[9].nameSpan, "Octubre");
        month[9].numDays = monthLeng[9];
        month[9].order = 10;

        strcpy(month[10].nameEng, "November");
        strcpy(month[10].nameSpan, "Noviembre");
        month[10].numDays = monthLeng[10];
        month[10].order = 11;

        strcpy(month[11].nameEng, "December");
        strcpy(month[11].nameSpan, "Diciembre");
        month[11].numDays = monthLeng[11];
        month[11].order = 12;

}

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> printf("That month cannot be found either in english or in spanish, please check your spelling.\n");
You need to do this outside the for loop, and then only if you fail to find a month which matches.
Set a "found" flag inside the loop, which you test outside.

The first for loop in findDayCount is problematic, because in the first instance, if the month isn't January or Enero, you will get "That month cannot be found...".

You can use a boolean variable here to check for a true or false situation:

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int bool=0;
for(i = 0; i < 12; i++)
        {
                if(strcasecmp(user, m[i].nameEng) == 0)
                {
                        strcpy(user, m[i].nameEng);
                        printf("You entered in the month, &#37;s, in english.\n", user);
                        fflush(stdout);
                        bool=1; break;
                }
                else if(strcasecmp(user, m[i].nameSpan) == 0)
                {
                        strcpy(user, m[i].nameSpan);
                        printf("You enterd in the mont, %s, in spanish.\n", user);
                        fflush(stdout);
                        bool=1; break;
                }
        }
if (bool==0)
                {
                        printf("That month cannot be found either in english or in spanish, please check your spelling.\n");
                        fflush(stdout);
                        return -1;
                }

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The reason I added break is because once the month has been matched you're finished in the loop.

ps. I am sure this is what Salem means by using a "found" flag, and in light of the fact s/he dwells at The Edge of the Known Universe, let's call this using a flag and not a "boolean variable", which an int we know is not TRUE-ly such a thing anyway

hmm, makes sense. I'll try it out. Thanks for the quick response. I'll let you guys know how it goes after this is done. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by MK27

The first for loop in findDayCount is problematic, because in the first instance, if the month isn't January or Enero, you will get "That month cannot be found...".

You can use a boolean variable here to check for a true or false situation:

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int bool=0;
for(i = 0; i < 12; i++)
        {
                if(strcasecmp(user, m[i].nameEng) == 0)
                {
                        strcpy(user, m[i].nameEng);
                        printf("You entered in the month, %s, in english.\n", user);
                        fflush(stdout);
                        bool=1; break;
                }
                else if(strcasecmp(user, m[i].nameSpan) == 0)
                {
                        strcpy(user, m[i].nameSpan);
                        printf("You enterd in the mont, %s, in spanish.\n", user);
                        fflush(stdout);
                        bool=1; break;
                }
        }
if (bool==0)
                {
                        printf("That month cannot be found either in english or in spanish, please check your spelling.\n");
                        fflush(stdout);
                        return -1;
                }

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The reason I added break is because once the month has been matched you're finished in the loop.

ps. I am sure this is what Salem means by using a "found" flag, and in light of the fact s/he dwells at The Edge of the Known Universe, let's call this using a flag and not a "boolean variable", which an int we know is not TRUE-ly such a thing anyway

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So this works awesome like magic. But there is something still going on here. That I can't seem to go around. When I type in february, it says that it can't be found. But i put it in my function down below. So what is happening? I tried debugging it, going step-by-step, but I still can't seem to find out whats wrong. Do you guys have any idea? hah, been trying to get this to work. Awesome thing is that I'm learning a lot just by making small mistakes. And its thanks you guys that are being very helpful that I can actually understand whats happening. Thanks again.

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Originally Posted by dlwlsdn

So this works awesome like magic. But there is something still going on here. That I can't seem to go around. When I type in february, it says that it can't be found.

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What about "February"?

Nope, it just keeps returning that it doesn't exist and -1. Which somewhat good, because we know that loop works. But I think something is happening between the two functions of initStruct and findDayCount. I'm still looking at it, can't seem to find it.

I notice that there is this:

Code:

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strcpy(month[1].nameEng, "February");
        strcpy(month[2].nameSpan, "Febrero");
        month[1].numDays = monthLeng[1];
        month[1].order = 2;

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Which would certainly screw up febrero.

OoO nice!

you know in the function it says

Code:

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struct month months[12];
initStruct(months);
/*.....
*
*
*/
x = findDayCount(months, enter_month, enter_day);

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could it be that its saying that it is saying the months[12], would be back at january? Thats what I think it is, if so. how would i change the initStruct or fix this problem?

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Originally Posted by dlwlsdn

could it be that its saying that it is saying the months[12], would be back at january?

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No, it's the same as any other array, eg, foo[10] has ten elements, 0-9. There is no months[12], and i<12 so that never happens.

oh, okay. So where is the problem. I'm still looking for it haha. Could it be the way I'm calling my findDayCount function is wrong?

What exactly is it your trying to do?

I just wrote a program that has the user input a month, either in English or Spanish, and then translates it and gives the number of days in that month.

I could post it for reference?

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Originally Posted by mmcg

What exactly is it your trying to do?

I just wrote a program that has the user input a month, either in English or Spanish, and then translates it and gives the number of days in that month.

I could post it for reference?

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Yeah, something like that.
The user will input a month and a day. So .i.e. February 28. Then the outcome should be that February 28 is the 59th day in the year.

something like this.

First: Can I just point out that using a name that is a predefined type in C++ is not a great idea, so calling the variable something OTHER than "bool" is probably a good idea. "found" perhaps?

Second:

Code:

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        if(day > 31 || day < 1)
        {
                printf("There are no %d days in that month.\n", day);
                fflush(stdout);
        }
        else if(day > 28 && (user == "february" || user == "febrero"))
        {
                printf("There are no %d in the month, %s. There is only 28.\n", day, user);
                fflush(stdout);
        }
        else if(day > 30 && (user == "april" || user == "june" || user == "august" || user == "september" || user == "november"))
        {
                printf("There are no %d in the month, %s. There are only 30 days.", day, user);
                fflush(stdout);
        }
        else if(day < 1)
        {
                printf("There are is no zero day. Did you type in the day correctly?\n");
                fflush(stdout);
        }

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wasn't the whole idea of having a struct months[12] that you don't have to mess about recognising names[which by the way, you are doing in the wrong way], but rather can use the months struct to find out if the day is outside the appropriate range.

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Mats

Hmm. I understand. Still working on it. Not giving up haha :D. Thanks for helping and giving me advice :D

Okay.... I really can't find out whats wrong with my findDayCount function..

Code:

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int findDayCount(struct month *m, char *user, int day){
        int total=0;
        int i;
        int test=0;
        // Checking to see if the enter_month is == to english or spanish
        for(i = 0; i < 12; i++)
        {
                if(strcasecmp(user, m[i].nameEng) == 0)
                {
                        strcpy(user, m[i].nameEng);
                        printf("You entered in the month, &#37;s, in english.\n", user);
                        fflush(stdout);
                        test = 1; break;
                }
                else if(strcasecmp(user, m[i].nameSpan) == 0)
                {
                        strcpy(user, m[i].nameSpan);
                        printf("You enterd in the mont, %s, in spanish.\n", user);
                        fflush(stdout);
                        test = 1; break;
                }
                if(test == 0)
                {
                        printf("That month cannot be found either in english or in spanish, please check your spelling.\n");
                        fflush(stdout);
                        return -1;
                }
        }
        // Checking to see if the days are in the right range.
        if(day > 31 || day < 1)
        {
                printf("There are no %d days in that month.\n", day);
                fflush(stdout);
        }
        else if(day > 28 && ( (user == "february") || (user == "febrero") ) )
        {
                printf("There are no %d in the month, %s. There is only 28.\n", day, user);
                fflush(stdout);
        }
        else if(day > 30 && ( (user == "april") || (user == "june") || (user == "august") || (user == "september") || (user == "november") ) )
        {
                printf("There are no %d in the month, %s. There are only 30 days.", day, user);
                fflush(stdout);
        }
        else if(day < 1)
        {
                printf("There are is no zero day. Did you type in the day correctly?\n");
                fflush(stdout);
        }
        total = m[i].numDays + day;
        return(total);
}

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it still tells me that I'm typing in the months wrong, except for january. Like january works fine.
and the "total" comes out to be -1 or some weird number haha. RAWR~ lol

Put "if (test == 0) ..." outside of the for-loop!

Also:

Code:

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(user == "february")

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tests if the address of user is the same address as the constant string "february". That is (nearly) impossible, as one is a local variable, and the other is a constant string value.

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Mats

matsp, you are a genius. How come I didn't see that before? I runs perfectly, except one thing... it didn't add the numbers correctly. I typed in february 28. And it printed out

Code:

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What month: february
What day: 28
You entered in the month, February, in english.
That day is the #28 in the entire year out 365 days.

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Obviously its not the #28 out of 365, it should be 59.

my code for it is.

Code:

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total = m[i].numDays + day;
        return(total);

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I know its not the right way to do it. I can't seem to find a way to accumulate every month and not accumulate january if i type in january 1 or something. This part is the last part I'm stuck on.

One way to do it . . .

Code:

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int monthnumber;
int months[12] = {31, 28, . . .}; /* don't feel like typing the entire array */
int day;
for(i = 0; i < monthnumber; i ++) {
    day += months[i];
}
day += enteredday;

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That should do it. (Something like that, anyhow . . .)

Gahh, day should be initialized to zero. Otherwise you'll get some pretty strange results.

OoO interesting. Nice night owl.. month number being what the user wrote. So january would be 1, feb. = 2, etc.

Program is finished and all good. If you guys want to see it, let me know. But its quite long and messy, because I know its not the most efficient way to do it :D, but its all thanks to you guys that I was able to understand what was going on.