C++ style 'zelda' text

I know how to make the text scroll from left to right in C, as I learnt most of C before learning C++. But I can't figure out how to make this work in C++. I do not want to mix C code with C++ code as that is bad practice. Does anyone know what changes I need to make to the following code sample from one of my C programs to make it into C++ code?

This is the code I need, but I wrote it in C ages ago:

Code:

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int x, size;

char sentc[]="This will scroll from left to right using sleep as speed";

 size=strlen(sentc);
 for(x=0;x<size;x++)
 { 
 sleep(40);
 printf("%c",sentc[x]);
 }

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from what I can gather, I have to change sleep to Sleep and printf to cout. Am I on the right track? Thanks in advance!

Some very minor changes to what you have should do the trick.

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
#include <string>

int main() {
  int x, size;
  std::string sentc = "This will scroll from left to right using clock as speed.";
  double start, end;
  size = sentc.size();
 
  for(x=0;x<size;x++) {
      start = double(clock())/1000;
      end = double(clock())/1000;
      while (end - start < .2)
        end = double(clock())/1000;
      std::cout << sentc[x];
  }
   
    return 0;
}

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I used <ctime> to do the pausing, because it's simply more standard than sleep().

EDIT: Oh, of course, to edit the speed the text scrolls, then just change that arbitrary floating point number in the while loop.

Thanks SlyMaelstrom, that's perfect! I only used sleep as I was taught that from a C book. Very much apprecieated!

Sleep() is in <windows.h>. NOT standard. Period.