Does anyone know how to split a string by spaces to make it an array of words? I want to take those words and add heighens to show where the syllables should be.

first part is pretty easy: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/236129/split-a-string-in-c

it's the second part you'll need to elaborate on. how are you determining where a syllable is?

1. If the pattern vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel is found, hyphenate between the two consonants. Use ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’, ‘u’, and ‘y’ as vowels, and all other characters as consonants.
2. If the pattern vowel-consonant-vowel is found, hyphenate before the consonant unless the second vowel is an ‘e’ and occurs at the end of the word.
3. The following character sequences are never divided by hyphens: “qu”, “tr”, “br”, “str”, “st”, “sl”, “bl”, “cr”, “ph”, “ch”. For the purposes of rules 1 and 2, each of these are single consonants.
4. Upper and lower-case distinctions are ignored for the purpose of applying the above rules. However, the case in the input must be preserved in the output.


these are the rules for where to insert hyphens in the string.

that sounds incredibly dumb. for example, "other" would become ot-her? anyway. what part of that do you need help with? just iterate over each character to determine if it's vowel / consonant, then use your rules to add hyphen.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Sep 20 2015 06:16pm

i literally just started c++ so the syntax is hard for me. and it would be "o-ther" because the hyphen is before the consonant. But once you split the string, how do i access the single words/ array of words?

if you're new to coding, i suggest going through an example while writing down your logic first, then converting it to pseudocode, then c++ at the end. dont get too hung up over syntax yet. post here with your pseduocode.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Sep 20 2015 06:17pm

im not new to coding but just new to c++. the method below is what I'm using for this. i want to take the input and convert it into a string. split the string by empty spaces just to get the word. go through the word looking for vowels and adding hyphens according to rules but I'm not sure how to go about splitting it and accessing those split words and then converting back to char*

char* getWords(const char* input)

i didn't mean that this is your first time coding, but you still seem new to it.

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/substr/

See also
string::replace Replace portion of string (public member function )
string::data Get string data (public member function )
string::find Find content in string (public member function )
string::assign Assign content to string (public member function )
string::string Construct string object (public member function )