cout fraction display

Hello again all knowing and all seeing cprogramming peoples. I have a quick question. I would like to display or print out on the screen a fraction. I would be most happy if it looked like this:

3/4


I figure it shouldnt be to hard but im an 'intro' programmer with very little skills. Below is the code i wrote that got around the problem but I was wondering if I could achieve the above display in c++. If it cannot then just call me a pirate and i will scurvy outta here but if im wrong, like i usally am with these things, i would appreciate any help in the right direction. Thanks ahead

Code:

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//get inputs for first fraction
        cout<<"enter in the first numerator:";
        cin>>num1;
       
        cout<<"Enter in the first denominator:";
        cin>>den1;

        cout<<"You entered in "<< num1 <<"/"<< den1 <<" as your first fraction"<<endl;

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My idea that has acheived notta:

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//get inputs for first fraction
      cout<<"Enter in the first fraction:"<<num1<<"/"<<den2<<endl;

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Logically it doesnt work cause 0/0 is what comes out. but im almost certain this is waaaaay to long of a post about such a simple task. My research has netted my a whole lotta talk about class and public which is two things i tend to vere away from
:p

You are trying to go for a masked input. That might be kind of tricky to get right in a console program. You could always read the fraction in as a string, then parse and convert to int. Something like this should do it...

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char inbuf[255];  // using C-Style string handling
cout << "Enter a fraction: ";
cin >> inbuf;
char* p = strchr(inbuf, '/');  // get pointer to the slash
*p = 0;  // terminate the numerator part
int num = atoi(inbuf);  // convert numerator
int den = atoi(p+1);  // convert denominator

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be careful... I've added no error checking.

looks interesting. a bit to advanced for me right now as i have not really began studying C-Style handling yet. Thank you for your help though and i will keep this line of code in mind once i do start learning about it.

Wait a minute... that answer I gave you overlooked a good standard library function... this is a perfect situation to use sscanf...

I am sure that by now you have been told that scanf is bad and you should avoid it. Well, it can be bad if it is not used well... but there is one thing it is very good for... masked input. It is good practice to first read input into a string then use sscanf to parse the string. Check this one out...

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#include <cstdio>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
        char buf[255];
        int numer=0, denom=0;

        cout << "Enter a fraction: ";
        cin >> buf;

        sscanf(buf, "%d/%d", &numer, &denom);
        cout << "Numerator: " << numer << " Denominator: " << denom << endl;

        return 0;
}

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why don't you just try something like this:

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#include<iostream>

int main()
{
    int numer,denom;
    char nullch;

    std::cin>>numer>>nullch>>denom;
    std::cout<<"Numerator: "<<numer<<"\nDenominator: "<<denom<<std::endl;

    return 0;
}

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very interesting.. Im currently in Intro C++ and im learning that there seems to be a personal vision to the individual coder when it comes to developing a program. There seems to be no wrong way of writing out code as long as the desired output is achieved. I finished my version yesterday and although it is a bit longer than the ones you fellow c++ ninjas wrote it still displayed quite nicely.(least i think so :p )

so with out further ado i give you my crowing achievment .....drum roll please.....

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cout<<"Enter in the First Numerator:          1 ";
        cin>>num1;
        cout<<"                              -----"<<endl;
        cout<<"Enter in the First Denominator: 2";
        cin>>den1;

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ya ya ya i know it looks super cheesy and im sure i did some cave man coding but i hope you guys got a good chuckle out of it like my teacher will definitley get but hey. If it works it works. hopefully soon i can understand the std:: and scannf stuff but i just started 14 weeks ago lol. good day all and i hope to be a productive member of this community someday :D

oh and i would like to thank both of you for taking the time to reply :cool:

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Originally Posted by major_small

why don't you just try something like this:

Code:

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    std::cin>>numer>>nullch>>denom;

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OK... I knew there were ways to do it using the iostream, I just didn't know what they were. That's interesting... just disregard a character in the input.

the way I would do it if I didn't want to declare a char just to get rid of something:

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std::cin>>numer;
std::cin.ignore();
std::cin>>denom;

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@CheyenneWay : the whole std:: thing is teh standard... you'll learn it soon enough... if you don't, you're not following the standards... it's fine because you just need one extra line of code to make it all standards-compliant... this is what the code would look like with the one line:

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#include<iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int numer,denom;
    char nullch;

    cin>>numer>>nullch>>denom;
    cout<<"Numerator: "<<numer<<"\nDenominator: "<<denom<<endl;

    return 0;
}

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