C++ can't get user input for strtok
Question
I keep running into an issue with this code in C++:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main ()
{
string words[25];
int i = 0;
char * word;
cout << "Input a phrase, no capital letters please.";
char phrase[100] = "this is a phrase";
word = strtok (phrase, " ,.");
while (word != NULL)
{
i++;
words[i] = word;
cout << words[i] << " ";
word = strtok (NULL, " ,.-");
int g = 0;
}
cout << endl << endl;
int g = 0;
while (g < i)
{
g++;
char f = words[g].at(0);
if ((f == 'a') || (f == 'e') || (f == 'i') || (f == 'o') || (f == 'u') || (f == 'y'))
{
words[g].append("way");
cout << words[g] << " ";
}
else
{
words[g].erase (0,1);
cout << words[g] << f << "ay" << " ";
}
}
cout << endl;
system("PAUSE");
}
I actually want my program user to generate the phrase to be put in char phrase[100] but I can't figure out the proper syntax to initiate input on it without screwing up the translation.
This is a program that translates phrases into pig latin BTW.
Solution
What you want is:
char phrase[100];
fgets(phrase, 100, stdin);
Though, as stated in the comments and other answer, you're using C string functions in C++ and this is very odd. You should not do so unless you are required by an assignment or something.
Instead use:
string input;
getline(cin, input);
To tokenize you can do the following:
string token;
size_t spacePos;
...
while(input.size() != 0)
{
spacePos = input.find(" ");
if(spacePos != npos)
{
token = input.substr(0, spacePos );
input = input.substr(spacePos + 1);
}
else
{
token = input;
input = "";
}
// do token stuff
}
Or, to skip all of that jazz:
string token;
while(cin >> token)
{
// Do stuff to token
// User exits by pressing ctrl + d, or you add something to break (like if(token == "quit") or if(token == "."))
}
OTHER TIPS
The preferred way of doing terminal I/O in C++ are streams. Use std::cin
and the std::getline
function to read strings from input output.
std::string input;
std::getline(std::cin, input);
After that you probably want to get rid of strtok
and look at this question to understand how to do string tokenization in C++.