testing and correcting lowercase

hey guys im trying to test for lowercase and prompting user to enter uppercase this is what i have done but does not work any help would be appreciated thanks

Code:

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        for(i=0;i<n;i++)
        {
                cout <<"\nPlease enter guess " << i+1 << " ";
                cin >> guess[0];
                while(islower(guess[0])==1)  // i also tried while(islower(guess[0]))
                {
                        cout <<"\nPlease enter a Capital " <<endl;
                        cin >> guess[0];
                }
                guess++;
        }

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How does it not work? Does it not compile? What are the compilation errors? Does it not run? Does it do something unexpected? What did it do? What did you expect it to do?

sorry it compiles fine what i wanted it to do was if they entered a lowercase char into guess[0] to prompt them to enter a capital and loop until they entered a capital. At the moment it accepts both upper and lowercase with no crashing.

i have temp fixed it to work if there is a better way please let me know

Code:

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for(i=0;i<n;i++)
        {
                cout <<"\nPlease enter guess " << i+1 << " ";
                cin >> guess[0];
                while(guess[0]>=91)
                {
                        cout <<"\nPlease enter a Capital " <<endl;
                        cin >> guess[0];
                }
                guess++;
        }

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I imagine that you would like to input a series of letters in capital into the array guess, yes? But in your code, whatever that's read in always goes to guess[0], instead of guess[i]. And you are always doing the testing on guess[0] too.

That might be the problem.

Using islower() is better. It will work with other languages where lower and upper case make sense, too. Or even better, use !isupper. Right now you are trying to get user to enter anything that's NOT lower case (which includes numbers, symbols, etc).

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Originally Posted by cyberfish

Using islower() is better. It will work with other languages where lower and upper case make sense, too. Or even better, use !isupper. Right now you are trying to get user to enter anything that's NOT lower case (which includes numbers, symbols, etc).

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i tried using islower and had no succcess maybe i did it wrong

Code:

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(islower(guess))

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(!isupper(guess[0]))