Need Help With Header library file..

Hi everybody! im hoping someone can plz help me out. I have to write a C program that reads in an English language message and encode that message into a Morse code, and vice versa. The user should have the option of inputting the message from a file with the path given on the command line or directly from the keyboard.

The following specifications apply:
1. Use one blank space between each Morse coded letter and three blanks between each Morse coded word.
2. Use the normal single space between English words and no space between English letters.
3. The program must be implemented with a programmer defined code converter library. For example, you may implement the library morseconverter. If so, then there must be a morseconverter.h header file and a morseconverter.c implementation file developed for the library.
4. Your program must implement structures for each code. For example, a structure will contain the English character ‘S’ and the equivalent code ‘. . .’ at a minimum to store the code for English S. This structure must be defined in the programmer defined library at Specification 3 above.
5. The program output will be:
a) A printout of the converted message on screen, and
b) A text file with the original message to the top followed by the converted message.

the problem is dat i have very basic knowledge in c programming, and im asking someone to plz help me create the header/library file and the .c file....i would very much appriciate it
thank u

You need to make an attempt yourself
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First start small
http://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-pro...t-process.html
Ignore the Morse bit for now, just try reading input from the user and print it back.
When that is done, then try printing each letter.
Then perhaps some specific examples of Morse translation.

the problem for me is implimenting the header file, dat i dont know.
basically i think i can make this work without the header, using 2 sepearte blocks one for english to mores and anothe for morse to english with basic asigning and maybe a switch construct, but would be plenty coding and also the major aspect of the program is to impliment your own header file.....was hoping to get some helpwith dat part....i would have done the main function.....

Moving the code to a separate source file (and it's accompanying header file) is something which is easy to do later (just a copy/paste job).

First you edit your code so what you want to separate out is in a function (or set of related functions).

Say you have main.c like this.

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>

void func ( char *msg ) {
  printf( "%s\n", msg );
}

int main ( ) {
  func("hello");
  return 0;
}

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After editing, you have 3 files.
This is func.h

Code:

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#ifndef FUNC_H_INCLUDED
#define FUNC_H_INCLUDED

void func ( char *msg );
#endif

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This is func.c

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include "func.h"

void func ( char *msg ) {
  printf( "%s\n", msg );
}

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And this is main.c

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include "func.h"

int main ( ) {
  func("hello");
  return 0;
}

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hey after lots of trying i was able to come up wit this, its working from command line, but i can only convert from english to morse,
can u please tell me where im going wrong and how to make it convert from morse to english?
thanks

Code:

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What exactly do you type in when trying to convert from Morse to English?

I see a memcmp, which isn't exactly what I would suggest for comparing strings.

Also, how do you know the letter boundaries of your Morse string?

morse -d ...---...
is a lot different to
morse -d "... --- ..."

Morse isn't an unambiguous grammar, you can't tell what the next letter is just from looking at the tokens. There has to be a separator.

the seperator suppose to be a single space, that is, -d "... --- ... "
And how would u propose dat i should compare strings? strcmp??

So where in your code do you detect spaces in the decode function.

And yes, strcmp().

hey ne way, thanks for ur reply...but i wll have to work wit wat i have here, this stuff due 2morrow, so i dont hve ne more time to work on it.