Hi, I have a code that I've been working on, and got stuck, I need help in reaching the solution to this program


Program:
This is the program
1)read in one string which consists of two words Ex. "Computer Science"

2)call a function makewords() which receives three parameters: a string which holds the original phrase and two strings to hold the two words.

3)Your function, makewords(), should then check if the 2 new strings are equal to each other, and print the appropriate
message saying whether or not they are equal.

4)print out the two words and their sizes.

5)call the function matchexact() passing the two strings. matchexact() will determine how many times the corresponding positions in the two strings hold exactly the same characters.


For example, if the two strings are "marriage" and "gerbil", then the function matchexact will return 2, since the two strings have the same characters in positions 2 and 5.
If the two strings are "starts" and "tarts", then the function will return 0, since the two strings never have the same characters in the same positions.
The main program will then call a function jointhem() which receives the two strings. The function will join the two strings together and print the new string. Ex. if string1 is “bath” and string2 is “water” than the new string is “bathwater”

So: have you done this? I don't see it in your code. Is this where you are stuck?

OK: I see that you have such a function, but I don't see any attempt to break the string into two words. Is this where you are stuck?

Well, you can't do this until you do step 2
Ditto
I don't see this. Is this where you are stuck?


If you would tell us what part you would like some help with, I'll bet that someone can come up with some suggestions.

Regards,

Dave

Thank you for your reply Dave but limergal wrote in to request that we delete her account. She made the request BEFORE you replied.

My response was only a couple of hours after the Original Post. Thanks for telling me that the Original Poster cancelled before I replied. I might have thought there was a problem with something that I said or the way that I said it.

I'm sorry that I couldn't help. Since there is nothing useful about programming or problem solving, maybe you should delete the entire thread???

Regards,

Dave

I was going to delete the thread but I was certain someone was going to reply and I didn't want them to have wasted their time.

If you think what you wrote is of no value to any one else, then I will delete the thread. I will do this tomorrow.

By the way, I have no problems leaving this thread as is. I will simply move our off-topic discussions out of the way.

When senior members post in a thread, I hate to delete these threads. You guys are genuinely trying to help out other people and I can imagine that you at least put some thought (and effort) into your replies. For that reason alone, I think we should keep it.

I don't care (much) either way. If you think it adds value to the board, it's OK by me (edit/crop as you like).

If future potential posters see the futility of posting a request for help that doesn't give us anything on which we can base a helpful response, it's worth keeping.

But the potential future posters who could possibly gain some insight from this probably don't go through the board and look at old threads anyhow. At least that's my impression --- but I could be wrong (again).

Regards,

Dave