issues with input (removing punctuation) from dictionary program

[jerger]

my program takes users input (words/sentance) and translates it from english to hmong. I have to main variables, but cannot post my entire code.

char In[999];
CString in;

basically the user cin >> In; then later in = In, then computes using the dictionary. is there anyway i can remove ! commas and periods from the input before translating in my dictionary? i keep getting error codes.

if i do this (first idea)

if (strcmp(In, "!") == 0) {
in = "love";} // In[i - 1];}

if you type in !, you get the word love translated (i used love as a test)

if you type in hello! (you get hello = ) then its blank since it doesn't seperate the word from the !... is there any way to compare the last letter of this special type of character since you cannot analyze it like an array. normally i would do In[j] = "!" or something, but its not a normal character/array so it wont let you look at a position and compare the input.

any ideas?

is there a simpler way in removing punctuation from the translation?

simple way to help me: how can i check/compare the last part of the word for lets say an !, and if it is found, replace it with a space?

[jerger]

in = In;

//in.ReleaseBuffe r(); // Things are now OK
punc = in.GetLength(); // This is guaranteed to be correct
while (in[punc] = '!'){
//in.TrimRight();
in = "love";
}



"..\..\..\..\.. \..\..\Translat or.cpp(127) : error C2106: '=' : left operand must be l-value"

[jerger]

i think i have to do something like this with the cstring, but not sure what to do yet to make it not crash

len = strlen(word); //this line made it stop crashing but now has no effect


//original post
if (in[len-1] == '.' || in[len-1] == '?')
in[len-1];= '\0';

//only works if i use == instead of =''\0" , if i do that i get error like cant use l-value


..\..\..\..\..\ ..\..\Translato r.cpp(147) : error C2106: '=' : left operand must be l-value
Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Setting

in is a cstring, In is char 999

in = In; //important

//
//if (in[strlen(szInput) )] == '!')
//in = "love";
len = strlen(in);
if (in[len-1] == '.')
in[len-1] = '\0';

[jerger]

woot 4am i figured it out!

len = strlen(in);
if (in[len-1] == '.')
in = in.TrimRight('. ');

[jerger]

punk is int, len is int, in is cstring

//punctuation removal
//while loop checks several times to catch all punctuation

while (punk < 10){
len = strlen(in);
if (in.Left(1) == '"')
in = in.TrimLeft('"' );

if (in[len-1] == '.')
in = in.TrimRight('. ');

if (in[len-1] == '"')
in = in.TrimRight('" ');

if (in[len-1] == '!')
in = in.TrimRight('! ');

if (in[len-1] == ',')
in = in.TrimRight(', ');

if (in[len-1] == '?')
in = in.TrimRight('? ');

if (in[len-1] == ':')
in = in.TrimRight(': ');

if (in[len-1] == ';')
in = in.TrimRight('; ');

punk++;
}
punk = 0;
//end of punctuation check