Hey guys, I have an assignment to do but I really don't know how to go about starting it. If anyone can give me some pointers on how to go about starting it please let me know!

My assignment:
Write a c++ program to analyze a stream of text read from a data file and create an output file. The input text consists of words separated by any number of blanks or one of the characters ' - ' or ' ? '. Each sentence tsends with a period or a question mark.

Your program should create an output file that contains modified version of the input text. The input text may be in lower case or uppercase or mixed. Your program should generate a copy of the input text in lowercase where the first word of each sentence begins with an uppercase letter.

Each line of the output should contain approximately but no more than 60 characters. You need to keep track of the character count for the current line and current word. Remember to include the blanks and other punctuation characters in your counts.


Should also provide the following information
Number of sentences in the text
Number of words in the text
Average number of words per sentence


I know its long, but if you can give some help on how to go about doing this I would appreciate it. Thanks

1. read file until you see . or ?
2. as you read, add each word (separated by spaces) to a queue.
3. when you see the punctuation, you know this is your full sentence. capitalize the first word and lower case the rest.
4. the size of this queue is the number of words in this sentence. this answers #2 and #3
5. number of times you repeat this entire loop is the number of sentences. this answers # 1

char word[60]; // variable for input value

indata.getline(word, 61, '\n');
cout << word << end;

would this work?

I'm sorry I'm just having issues grasping this

so if anyone can answer me


while (!infile.eof())
{
condition that makes letters capital / lowercase?
}

I feel like there is no simple way to do this and my teacher hasnt even gone over any of the suggestions im seeing on google


:wallbash:

ill do it for 25 fg


edit:: basically you need a couple vars to hold your data ex: total words, total sentences, avg words per sentence. and then you simply create a loop that reads in the text file character by character (which is the simplest for you seeing how you are already lost). another better more effiecient way is to read in data in chunks and then search your buffer for punctuation. and then calculate everything you need up to the punctuation and once you are done remove everything up to it from the buffer and shift the remaining data down to the beginning of the buffer.


ex: say if the text was


i love big black. do you love black horses? i know i do.

and you read in 10 characters at a time. your logic flow would be



then again this is way to complicated for you and i just suggest go through char by char adding it to the buffer and checking if it equals any of your checks.

This post was edited by AbDuCt on Jun 10 2012 10:33pm

nvm he works with C

This post was edited by SlayingWhileInt0xicated on Jun 10 2012 10:36pm

for 25 fg, you should take the offer just to get the logic, then convert whatever few snippets need to be corrected.

slowly explaining him the basic logic.
i dont think he knew how to read a file or something gave him links + simple logic snippets.

problem is abduct is doing everything in C :/