ignore funtiction?

[Luis]

Please help, this is due at 11:59 PM tonite. Thanks

Write a program that reads a person's name from the keyboard in the format
First Middle Last. It should then (1) print each of the names on a separate
line and (2) print the person's initials on the fourth line. Assume that
each person has exactly 3 names, that the first name begins in the first
position on a line (there are no leading blanks) and that the names are
separated from each other by a single blank.

Do not use arrays in this assignment.

SO far i gigured out only how to print out the initials, but i can't figure
out how to get each part of a name as a seperate string. Can any one help me
out? here is my source so far

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{

char m;
char l;
char f;

cin>>f;
cin.ignore(100,' ');
cin>>m;
cin.ignore(100,' ');
cin>>l;

cout<<f<<m<<l<<endl;

return 0;
}

[Victor Bazarov]

"Luis" <ki***@attbi.com> wrote...

Please help, this is due at 11:59 PM tonite. Thanks

Write a program that reads a person's name from the keyboard in the format
First Middle Last. It should then (1) print each of the names on a separate line and (2) print the person's initials on the fourth line. Assume that
each person has exactly 3 names, that the first name begins in the first
position on a line (there are no leading blanks) and that the names are
separated from each other by a single blank.

Do not use arrays in this assignment.

SO far i gigured out only how to print out the initials, but i can't figure out how to get each part of a name as a seperate string. Can any one help me out? here is my source so far

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{

char m;
char l;
char f;
Declare them as 'string'.

cin>>f;
cin.ignore(100,' ');
cin>>m;
cin.ignore(100,' ');
cin>>l;
Drop the 'ignore's.

cout<<f<<m<<l<<endl;
To output each of them on a separate line you need a line
separator between them, don't you?

Now, regarding the initials, what are they? Each initial
is the very first character of each name, right? So, output
the initials by outputting the very first character in each
string.

return 0;
}

[Andre Kostur]

"Luis" <ki***@attbi.com> wrote in news:4jpKa.18096$Fy6.5818@sccrnsc03:

Please help, this is due at 11:59 PM tonite. Thanks

Write a program that reads a person's name from the keyboard in the
format First Middle Last. It should then (1) print each of the names
on a separate line and (2) print the person's initials on the fourth
line. Assume that each person has exactly 3 names, that the first name
begins in the first position on a line (there are no leading blanks)
and that the names are separated from each other by a single blank.

Do not use arrays in this assignment.

SO far i gigured out only how to print out the initials, but i can't
figure out how to get each part of a name as a seperate string. Can
any one help me out? here is my source so far

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{

char m;
char l;
char f;

cin>>f;
cin.ignore(100,' ');
cin>>m;
cin.ignore(100,' ');
cin>>l;

cout<<f<<m<<l<<endl;

return 0;
}

Well..... first thing to note is that you're reading into variables of
type 'char'. char can only hold one character. Look up a standard type
named "std::string".

[Victor Bazarov]

"E. Robert Tisdale" <E.**************@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote...

Andre Kostur wrote:

Luis wrote:

Do not use arrays in this assignment.

Well..... first thing to note is that you're reading into variables of
type 'char'. char can only hold one character.
Look up a standard type named "std::string".

Isn't a std::string an array?

No, it isn't. Are you trolling again?

[coderchris]

Ok The way to do it is:

#include <iostream> // for cout, cin, endl functions
#include <string> // to make variables called strings

using namespace std; // using namespaces

int main() // the main function
{ // open the main function
string f; // create a string variable called f (first name)
string m; // create a string variable called m (middle name)
string l; // create a string variable called l (last name)

cin>>f; cin.ignore(0,' '); // input first name, then ends after the " " (space)
cin>>m; cin.ignore(0,' '); // input first name, then ends after the " " (space)
cin>>l; cin.ignore(0,' '); // input last name, hit enter.

cout<<f<<endl<<m<<endl<<l<<endl; // output first name, next line, middle name, next line, last name, next line.
system("pause"); // for windows if you want to pause the programme.
/* cin.get(); */ // remove the /**/ comments from it if you are not using windows and need to pause the programme to view it.
} // end the main function

[khanh1975]

here's the solution to your problem.


#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
string fi;
string mi;
string last;

cin >> fi >> mi >> last;
cout << fi << endl
<< mi << endl
<< last << endl;
cout << fi.substr(0,1);
cout << mi.substr(0,1);
cout << last.substr(0,1) << endl;
return 0;
}