2 commands seperated by a freespace?:P

what I cant make work is having a commandline which can take 2 commands seperated by a space.. like "get potion" or "wear shirt".. its probebly as easy as anything but cant make my code work.. if anyone have a few tips about what Im doing wrong it would be lovely:P here is my code as it is now:

Code:

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#include <iostream.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <dos.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

char first[10], second[10];

int wear()
{
        if (second == "shirt")        {cout << "\nYou wear the ragget old shirt";}
  if (second == "pants")        {cout << "\nYou wear the pants";}
  if (second == "caps")        {cout << "\nYou wear the red caps";}
  if (second == "boots")        {cout << "\nYou wear the smooth, black boots";}
  else {cout << "\nYou dont have that to wear!";}
  return (0);
}

int get()
{
  if (second == "shirt")        {cout << "\nYou get a ragget old shirt";}
  if (second == "pants")        {cout << "\nYou get tha pants";}
  if (second == "caps")        {cout << "\nYou get the red caps";}
  if (second == "boots")        {cout << "\nYou get a pair of smooth, black boots.";}
  else                                                        {cout << "\nYou cant see that item anywhere";}
        return (0);
}


int main(void)
{
while(1)
        {
                cout        << "\nYour command? ";
      cin >> first >> second;

                                        if (first == wear)        {wear();}
        else        if (first == get)                {get();}
        else        if (first == exit)  {exit(1);}
        else                                                                {cout << "\n What? Who? When!?";}

  }
}

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I would be gratefull for any hints:P

you could enter it as one string then tokenize the string into seperate strings.

You have any example of that? a code or something I can look at? or some link to som place where I can more clearly understand what you mean:P thanks

Hello,

When comparing two strings, you could use strcmp(). strcmp() is a function included in the C library that Compares two strings.

It works like the following:
> Compares string1 to string2 character by character.

Code example:

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main() {
        char str[] = "Hello";

        if (!strcmp(str, "Hello"))
                printf("It matched!\n");

        return 0;
}

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You may be asking why I asked if strcmp() failed, or equalled zero. Though maybe this will help:

• <0 string1 is less than string2
• 0 string1 is the same as string2
• >0 string1 is greater than string2

I apologize for representing C code in the C++ board. There are ways to compare strings in C++.

Comparing strings is inherently different than comparing numbers. Numbers have constant, universally meaningful values. To evaluate the relationship between the magnitude of two strings, you must make a lexical comparison. Lexical comparison means that when you test a character to see if it is "greater than" or "less than" another character, you are actually comparing the numeric representation of those characters as specified in the collating sequence of the character set being used.

C++ provides several ways to compare strings, and each has their advantages. The simplest to use are the non member overloaded operator functions operator ==, operator != operator >, operator <, operator >=, and operator <=.

Code:

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#include <string>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main() {
        // Strings to compare
        string s1("This ");
        string s2("That ");
        for (int i = 0; i < s1.size() && i < s2.size(); i++) {
                // See if the string elements are the same:
                if (s1[i] == s2[i]) {
                        cout << s1[i] << "  " << i << endl;
                        // Use the string inequality operators
                        if (s1 != s2) {
                                cout << "Strings aren't the same:" << " ";
                                if (s1 > s2)
                                        cout << "s1 is > s2" << endl;
                                else
                                        cout << "s2 is > s1" << endl;
                        }
                }
        }

        return 0;
}

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Most often, this will be the ASCII collating sequence, which assigns the printable characters for the English language numbers in the range from 32 to 127 decimal. In the ASCII collating sequence, the first "character" in the list is the space, followed by several common punctuation marks, and then uppercase and lowercase letters. With respect to the alphabet, this means that the letters nearer the front have lower ASCII values than those nearer the end.


- Stack Overflow

stackoverflow has the ticket.

check out these sites for more info.
string class
http://www.msoe.edu/eecs/ce/courseinfo/stl/string.htm
and
token
http://www.cppreference.com/stdstrin...ls.html#strtok

What stack said.

But also since you are reading user input and you do not want it to end on a space you should use
cin.getline with an array of chars or you can use just getline with strings.

cin.getline example:

Code:

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#include <iostream>

int main(void)
{
 
  char input[80];
  std::cin.getline(input,80,'\n');
  std::cout<<input;
 
  return 0;

}

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If your wondering how cin.getline works this is how its declared.

cin.getline(char *buffer, streamsize num, char delim);

char *buffer, is the char array or pointer you want to input to.

streamsize num, is how many characters you want to read. Basically the size of your array

char delim, is the delimiter which basically means what you want to stop reading input on for your case a newline('\n')
This is optional for you since getline will automatcally stop at a newline but I think it is still good to put the delimiter
in there

getline example:

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>

int main(void)
{
 
  std::string input;
  std::getline(std::cin,input,'\n');
  std::cout<<input;

  return 0;
 
}

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getline works similar to cin.getline but instead of the char *buffer being what you want to write to.

This is where you get the input from, for your case this is std::cin.

The second one is the variable that your inputing to.

Also agian the third is optional for your case but it is the delimiter

Thank you:P Ill try some of it out:P here is the mudgame tast Im working on, if you like to take a look. what I was trying to get from this thread was making all the getches into cin`s.
if you look at the code.. make sure to give me a pointer or two on how to improve it:P

ok.. I made this work ok.. but now I have the problem, I cant enter one word without 2 spaces.. like "exit" or "quit" "stat" etc.. my code is now:

Code:

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#include <iostream.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <dos.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

char first[10], second[10];

void wear()
{
        if                (!strcmp(second, "shirt")) {cout << "\nYou wear the ragget old shirt";}
  else if        (!strcmp(second, "pants")) {cout << "\nYou wear the pants";}
  else if        (!strcmp(second, "caps"))        {cout << "\nYou wear the red caps";}
  else if        (!strcmp(second, "boots")) {cout << "\nYou wear the smooth, black boots";}
  else                                                                                        {cout << "\nYou dont have that to wear!";}
}

void get()
{
  if                (!strcmp(second, "shirt"))        {cout << "\nYou get a ragget old shirt";}
  else if        (!strcmp(second, "pants")) {cout << "\nYou get tha pants";}
  else if        (!strcmp(second, "caps"))        {cout << "\nYou get the red caps";}
  else if        (!strcmp(second, "boots")) {cout << "\nYou get a pair of smooth, black boots.";}
  else                                                                                          {cout << "\nYou cant see that item anywhere";}
}


int main(void)
{
while(1)
        {
                cout        << "\nYour command? ";
      cin.getline(first,10, ' ');  textbackground
      cin.getline(second,10, '\n');

              if (!strcmp(first, "wear"))        {wear();}
        else        if (!strcmp(first, "get"))                  {get();}
        else  if (!strcmp(first, "exit"))          {exit(1);}
        else                                                                                        {cout << "\n What? Who? When!?";}

  }
}

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