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If you had something like this:
If the user enters inCode:int age;
string firstname;
cout << "Please enter in your age and first name:";
cin >> age >> firstname;
90 Nick
the code works fine.
But what if the user 'accidently' enters in their last name.
like this:
90 NickSmith
How would you throw away the "Smith" - assuming that everybody's name is only 4 letters long?
would you use an ignore()?
You could counter for every possible thing the user could do. From that to checking if the user entered numbers, profanity, object names, etc... But the size of your code would be enormous, not to mention the dictionary that you would probably have to load into memory.
Assuming the name is only 4 letters long, how would you cope with names like DanY, LeaF, and others...
The best option is to not be too pedantic. But if you really want to do it, then you can either cut everything to just the first 4 letters with std::string.erase() and Michael would become Mich,
or
search for the first capital letter after the first index with a combination of find_first_of() against a string of capital letters and std::string.erase(). In this case MiChael would become Mi.
>> NickSmith
Would they not be likely to press space between names?
If the user is intent on typing their last name as well as their first, there's nothing you can do about it. You might block from the second capital onwards, but what's to prevent a name like "Nicksmith"? And it might block legitimate names like "DWK" or "McDonald".
Do what I would do - assume an intelligent user :p I love it when assignments have those precious words there!
Joe: "'Enter your age and first name.' Okay. Hmm . . ."Quote:
Originally Posted by twomers
Joe types: "Joe twenty"
Joe: "'Error'? Okay . . ."
Joe types: "20 Joe"
Joe: ""Error'?!?! Fine."
Joe types: "20 20"
Joe: "'Welcome, 20'? That's not my name . . ."
Joe clearly doesn't fit that criteria!
Don't you mean 20?Quote:
Originally Posted by twomers
>> assuming that everybody's name is only 4 letters long?
Use get into a vector<char> or character array of size 5 and specify 4 characters as what you want. You can't do it with operator>> and strings since operator>> assumes a string ends at the first whitespace.
You could also get one character at a time and append them to the string.