a program using four arrays of pointers

[Nkhosinathie]

hi, i'm writing a program that is using 4 arrays of pointers to char,called article,noun,ve rb and preposition.the program should create a sentence by selecting a word at random from each array in the following order:article,n oun,verb preposition,,ar ticle and noun.as each word is picked,it should be concatenated to the previous words in an array that is large enough to hold the entire sentence. the words should be separated by spaces.when the final sentence is output,it should start with a capital letter and end with a period.the program should generate 20 such sentences.

what i have deduced from this statement is that ill be using 4 arrays of pointers.so may you help me to have an idea of where to start because i don't have an idea.thanks

[Nkhosinathie]

That was a short outline of the steps you have to implement in order to produce
a (pseudo) random element from a list "w0,w1,w2,w 3 ...,wn". Read it again.

kind regards,

Jos

please check the following code.

// program uses randon number generation to create sentences
#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include<ctype.h>
#include<cstring>
const int row= 20;
 
const int column= 80;
void touppercase(char *string);
void concatenate(char *array[][column],int element,char *string[],int size);
 
using std::cout;
using std::endl;
 
int main()
{
 
srand(time(NULL));
 
char *array[row][column] = {" "};
int position= 0;
int counter= 1;
char *article[5]= {"the","a","one","some","any"};
char *noun[5]= {"boy","girl","dog","town","car"};
char *verb[5]= {"drove","jumped","ran","walked","skipped"};
char *preposition[5]= {"to","from","over","under","on"};
 
do
{
 
 
if(counter == 20)
touppercase(article[position]);
 
concatenate(array,counter,article,row);
 
concatenate(array,counter,noun,row);
 
concatenate(array,counter,verb,row);
 
 
concatenate(array,counter,preposition,row);
 
 
}while(counter < 21);
for(int i =0;i<20;i++)
for(int j =0;j<20;j++)
cout<<array[i][j]<<endl;
 
return 0;
}
 
void touppercase(char *string)
{
int i =0;
while((*string != '\0') && (i != 1))
{
*string = toupper(*string);
++i;
}
}
void concatenate(char *array[][column],int element, char *string[],int size)
{
int position = 0;
position = rand() % 5;
array[element][column] = string[position]; 
 
}

[JosAH]

So now you've changed the implementation from this:

char arrayNoun[50]="boy,girl,dog,town,car";
 

to this:

char *noun[5]= {"boy","girl","dog","town","car"};
 

That renders my remarks, based on your previous implementation, completely useless.

kind regards,

Jos

[pbmods]

Heya, Nkhosinathie.

What is your code doing that you don't want it to do? Give an example.
What is your code *not* doing that it is supposed to? Give an example.

[sicarie]

Nkhosinathie-

Please do not double-post - try to keep all your questions on the same topic in one thread.

Also, you are a member, so you should be using code tags around your code. They are [CODE=cpp] and [/code].

Thanks

[Nkhosinathie]

Heya, Nkhosinathie.

What is your code doing that you don't want it to do? Give an example.
What is your code *not* doing that it is supposed to? Give an example.

the program doesn't want to print anything. when i compile it,it shows just a space
thanks.

[Nkhosinathie]

Nkhosinathie-

Please do not double-post - try to keep all your questions on the same topic in one thread.

Also, you are a member, so you should be using code tags around your code. They are

 and 

.

Thanks

i apologise for that,and i'm still not sure how to wrap my code to code tags.

[sicarie]

i apologise for that,and i'm still not sure how to wrap my code to code tags.

If you look at my post above, you put the code in the space of the 'and' in between the two tags. Then if you look at your reply, you will see how the code is translated.