Search for word

[Mite22]

Hi. I am new to c++ coding and I need help with a program I am trying to create.

The programs purpose is that you let the user write a sentence and then the user can search the sentence for a word and if it finds one in the sentence the console will then tell the user its correct and so on.

But I have done the same program with string, but I wish to create it with char arrays this time but I fail miserably and I can't figure it out. the problem is that The user cant find the word in the sentence. Well the code is here:::

#include <iostream>
 
 
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    int get = 0;
 
    char sentence[56];
    char word[10];
 
    std::cout << "Please write a sentance; \n";
 
 
    std::cin.getline(sentence, 56);
 
    std::cout <<"your sentance is: \n" << sentence << std::endl;
 
    std::cout <<"Now search for a word in your sentance:"<< std::endl;
 
    std::cin >> word;
 
 
while ( get < 56)
{
    if (sentence[get] == word[1])
    {
    get++;
        if (sentence[get] == word[1])
        {
            std::cout << "Thats a word in your sentence\n\n";
            break;
        }
        else
        {
            get++;
        }
 
    }
    else
    {
 
        std::cout << "Sorry, thats not a word in your sentence.\n\n";
        get++;
        break;
    }
 
}
 
 
    return 0;
 
}

Thanks for any help!!

I am prolly just really confused...

[Banfa]

You need a nested loop to do this, the outer loop loops for the occurrence of the first letter in the word (possibly at the start of a word), the inner loop runs if the first letter is found and checks the other letters; then if it fails half way through you can continue the search at the next letter in the sentence on the outer loop rather.

If you try to do this with a single loop you end up skipping letters in the sentence when looking for the first letter of the word.

Also for some reason you only ever compare the 2nd letter of the word.

[Mite22]

Thanks for the reply!

Would it be possible for you to explain it a bit more. Because I don't understand how you can create loops when you don't know what the user write for sentence and how big the words are.

Thanks!!