Need help with .txt file conversion

Hello !
I want to write a program, that reads from an existing .txt file
all capitals and convert them into small letters. After every sentence there should be a line-makeup and in one line there should be max. 80 characters....


Thats is the beginning of my code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {

FILE *f;
f=fopen("test.txt","r");
if (f==NULL)
printf("Fehler beim Öffnen");
...
...
...

fclose(f);

return 0;
}

So what exactly do you want help with?

To get you started, here's some case conversion information:
http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284392

Hi Hammer,
I think you hadn't understand me...Im a C newbie (sorry for my bad american english) and the prog I have to code is not very useful, I program a little bit C in school.

Here's my question again: (I hope it's better now)

I want to write a program, that reads from an existing .txt textfile
with a story all capitals like T from Tree and B from Bear and convert them into small letters to tree and bear.

Another thing must the programm do:
After every sentence there should be a line-makeup (\n) and in one line there should be max. 80 characters....

Thanks for help....

Ok, so do what you know how, and show us where you get stuck. In a nutshell, you want something like:

Code:

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read into buffer
    convert to lower case
    do whatever

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If you're going to be reading entire lines, which you know will only ever be 80 characters max, then create a buffer of 80 characters, and read into it. Something like fgets is commonly used. Read until you're done with the file, processing the buffer between each read.

Quzah.

hi again...
can't you code it, PLEASE ?

Thats is the beginning of my code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {

FILE *f;
f=fopen("test.txt","r");
if (f==NULL)
printf("Fehler beim Öffnen");
...
...
...

fclose(f);

return 0;
}

Wow!!!! Really cool beginning!

Serious now:
Well, you have to read each character seperatily. You test if it is uppercase. If it is not capital you print it back unchanged, but if it is capital you make it lowercase and print it back. This is the first part which is easy. ( use functions: isupper, tolower )

Secondly:
f=fopen("test.txt","r");
should be:
f=fopen("test.txt","w+");

Third:
After every sentence there should be a line-makeup (\n) and in one line there should be max. 80 characters....
About the 80 characters we don't care. What should we do if there is a line with more 80 charcters? I don't know. You tell me nothing anout that... Besides, in my example you take charcter by character.
About the newline: You just test if the current character is '.'. If it is, you print back 2 characters: '.' , '\n'.

I hope i solved all your questions.
Good luck

Quote:

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Originally posted by korken
hi again...
can't you code it, PLEASE ?

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Oh my, oh my.....please tell me you're kidding!! We're not here to do your work but we will help you.

Thanks for the comments. How can use this code with every textfile now ? When I write: programname < example.txt in my console.

PHP Code:

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#include <stdio.h> 
#include <ctype.h> 

int main(void)
{
   char hello[] = "Hello World";
   char *p;
   
   printf ("Before conversion: %s\n", hello);

   for (p = hello; *p != '\0'; ++p)
   {
       *p = tolower(*p);
       ++p;
   }

   printf ("After conversion: %s\n", hello);

   return 0;   
} 


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Hi
Your code has two mistakes
u have write ++p twice and this will cause the pionter to jump to time before make convert
here the code after editing


#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>

int main(void)
{
char hello[] = "HELLO WORLD";
char *p;

printf ("Before conversion: %s\n", hello);

for (p = hello; *p != '\0'; ++p)
{
*p = tolower(*p);

}

printf ("After conversion: %s\n", hello);

return 0;
}



out put :

Before conversion: HELLO WORLD
After conversion: hello world
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Dragon227Slayer, your code also has a problem. It isn't surrounded by [code] tags.

one question: how can i make a new line after 80 characters ? with \n ???

buffer[80] = '\n';

You would of course have to have a buffer of at least 82 characters so you could include a null. (Assuming you actually want to treat these as strings.)

Naturally you'd want to do it the "right" way and back up to the first whitespace, and use that, copying the remainder to the next buffer...

Quzah.

thx to all and greetings from the other side of the ocean ;)