conversion of language.

[Riana]

AmeriCanadian
Americans spell differently from Canadians. Americans write "neighbor" and "color" while Canadians write "neighbour" and "colour”. Write a program to help Americans translate to Canadian. Your program should interact with the user in the following way. The user should type a word (not to exceed 64 letters) and if the word appears to use American spelling, the program should echo the Canadian spelling for the same word. If the word does not appear to use American spelling, it should be output without change. When the user types "quit!" the program should terminate.
The rules for detecting American spelling are quite naive: If the word has more than four letters and has a suffix consisting of a consonant followed by "or", you may assume it is an American spelling, and that the equivalent Canadian spelling replaces the "or" by "our". Note : you should treat the letter "y" as a vowel.
Keyboard input and screen output is expected.
Sample session. User input in italics.
Enter words to be translated:
color
colour
for
for

{  int f,x;
   string s1,e;
   do{
   cout<<"enter your word:"<<endl;
   cin>>s1;
   f=s1.find("or");
   x=s1.length();
   if(x<=3 )
    cout<<s1<<endl;
 
else {
   e=s1.erase(0,f-2);
   cout<<s1.substr(0,1+1)+ ("our")<<endl;
  }}
   while(s1!="quite");
return 0;}
 

[Nepomuk]

So... what is your question?

[Riana]

of course my question....my qoustion is "what's wrong with my prograaaaaammmmmm???"

[Cmaza]

What about words like "Flour" and "Devour"? Your logic is fairly sound, given that with the American standardisation of English, most -our words were changed to -or words. However, unfortunately, in any given natural language - especially English - there are always exceptions to the rules.

Best thing you could probably do here is hard-code for the more commonly encountered exceptions, and include a disclaimer in your documentation with a contact method for in the event that future problems are found (because for anything to do with language, there'll always be future problems, especially as language changes frequently; many words I was taught back in my school years are spelled different today).

( Additional challenge - In this post, there are two very small clues that could indicate which dialect of English is my native dialect. I'm curious if anyone can spot them. )

[Nepomuk]

@Riana I don't know. What is or isn't it doing? Why do you believe that something is wrong at all? We will be happy to help you fix your problems but we won't go looking for them.

@Cmaza I'm pretty sure this is a homework task and it says in the description "The rules for detecting American spelling are quite naive". If this were ever used outside of the programming course it's probably for, I'd agree though. ^^

[weaknessforcats]

Build a dictionary.

You will need an American->Canadian and also a Canadian->American. Data base designers would see this as one database with two indexes.

So, the user enters a word, you look it up in the dictionary and get the word in the other language. There's no parsing of the input trying to make color into colour.