New and improved pointer question

In my previous pointer post, I have a user input:

Quote:

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Hello to the world

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and I converted this string to:

Quote:

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olleH ot eht dlrow

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using this code:

Code:

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istringstream break_apart(input);
input = "";
while (break_apart >> word)
  {
    front = &word.at(0);   
    rear = &word.at(word.size() - 1);
    while (front <= rear)    {
          swap (*front, *rear);
          front++;
          rear--;
    }
    input += word + " ";

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Using this sort of method of pointers, how would I change this code to have my pointers point to an ENTIRE word, not just a character like I have above? Thank you very much for all of the help in advance!!

You mean you want a pointer to the string instead of a pointer to an individual char?

Code:

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string word = "word";
string* word_pointer = &word;

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I'm not sure why you would want to do this though.

I mean if I had the input "Hello to the world," I want to know how to assign a pointer to a word, so that I can do essentially the same thing as before, but have the program output, "world the to Hello" (backwards)

Instead of

Code:

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input += word + " ";

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you can do

Code:

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input = word + input; // Might need to add a space in here as well, but you get the idea

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Store the words into a suitable container (eg a std::vector<std::string>), and then access elements from that container in reverse order.

can you show me an example using pointers please grumpy? I want to keep my program consistant if you do not mind. Thank you though for your idea, that would definately make sense.

I'll leave that as an exercise. Simply use the logic of my suggestion, and work out how to implement it using an array and a pointer to elements of that array.

Incidentally, you might want to look up the standard header named <algorithm> and, within that header, the std::reverse() algorithm.

Please don't start a new thread on a topic already being discussed.

its a new question though, its not the same question as previously. i had my disclaimer at the top there explaining the previous post. I am not breaking rules.

OK, i fixed that part of my program, kinda, but now I have a new problem for some reason: My program will not output what I would like for it to be. This is weird, because it seems as if it would be the least of my worries, haha. I dunno. Even if I try to output something within a for loop toward the end of int main(), it doesn't for some odd reason...

If you all haven't been following this post, the object of the program is to input a string and then reverse the order of the words. Ex.) "Hello to the world!" --> "world! the to Hello"

The part I'm having trouble with (in bold) starts at the end of the sentence looking for spaces. When it finds a space, it copies each character to the output string between
the space and the end of the sentence, then updates to the new
location and looks for the next space.

Maybe someone can see what I'm not. Please make my program output something!!! Thanks for the help!!

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
#include <vector> 
void swap (char *front, char *rear);
using namespace std;
 
int main()
{
  string input, word;
  char *front, *rear;
  //vector <string> array;
  cout << "Enter a string to reverse: ";
  getline(cin, input);
 
  typedef char* ArrayPtr;
  ArrayPtr array, mod_array;
  array = new char[input.length()];
  string mod_input = input;
  mod_array = new char[mod_input.length()];
  istringstream break_apart(input);
  input = "";
 
  while (break_apart >> word)
  {
    front = &word.at(0);
    rear = &word.at(word.size() - 1);
    while (front <= rear)
    {
          swap (*front, *rear);
          front++;
          rear--;
    }
    input += word + " ";
  }
 
  for (int i = 0; i < input.length(); i++)
        array[i] = input[i];
 
  cout << "The formatted, reversed string is: ";
  for (int i = 0; i < input.length(); i++)
      cout << array[i];
  cout << endl;
 
  char* output;
  output = new char[mod_input.length()];
  int next_out_char = 0;

  int next_space_index = mod_input.length() - 1;
  int word_end_index = mod_input.length() - 1;

  while (next_space_index > -1)
  {
    while (mod_input[next_space_index] != ' ' && next_space_index >= -1)
        next_space_index--;
  }
  for (int j = next_space_index + 1; j < word_end_index; j++)
  {
      output[next_out_char] = mod_input[j];
      next_out_char++;
  }
  next_space_index--;
  word_end_index = next_space_index;
  return 0;
}
void swap (char *front, char *rear)
{
    char temp = *front;
    *front = *rear;
    *rear = temp;
}

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It is really confusing to understand what is going on here.

When you use the stringstream to break the sentence up into words, and you can concatenate it all back into a string with the words in reverse order, what's all the rest for?

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Aside:

Code:

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char *front, *rear;
...
swap (*front, *rear);
...
void swap (char *front, char *rear)
{
    char temp = *front;
    *front = *rear;
    *rear = temp;
}

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Did you actually know that you are using the standard algorithm swap instead of your swap, since the call with two characters (not pointers) doesn't match your swap? (The std::swap works fine, here, though.)