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[pkirk25]

string name;
cin >> name;

User enters "johnny appleseeD".

How can I use transform to reformat this as "Johnny Appleseed"?

Thanks in advance.

 

[mlimber]

string name;
cin >> name;

User enters "johnny appleseeD".

How can I use transform to reformat this as "Johnny Appleseed"?

Sounds like homework to me.

http://parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/how-to-post.html#faq-5.2

Cheers! --M

 

[Jacek Dziedzic]

string name;
cin >> name;

User enters "johnny appleseeD".

How can I use transform to reformat this as "Johnny Appleseed"?

You can't, because >> breaks the input on each whitespace,
i.e. name will only contain "johnny".

- J.

 

[pkirk25]

Sounds like homework to me.

http://parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/how-to-post.html#faq-5.2

Cheers! --M

I'm 42 and long past homework. Thanks for taking the time to share you
expertise.

 

[pkirk25]

You can't, because >> breaks the input on each whitespace,
i.e. name will only contain "johnny".

- J.

I didn't know that. The actual phrases I need to reformat are in
format "darkmoon faire-alliance" and I'd like to change them to
"Darkmoon Faire: Alliance". The colon is easy but the correct use of
transform is not.

 

[Nate Barney]

The actual phrases I need to reformat are in format "darkmoon
faire-alliance" and I'd like to change them to "Darkmoon Faire:
Alliance". The colon is easy but the correct use of transform is
not.

I probably wouldn't use std::transform for that. Take a look at boost
(http://www.boost.org/libs/libraries.htm#String), particularly its regex
library, and see if that might suit your needs.

Nate

 

[Jim Langston]

string name;
cin >> name;

User enters "johnny appleseeD".

How can I use transform to reformat this as "Johnny Appleseed"?

Thanks in advance.

I would probably write my own function to do the convertion, I don't think
transform would do it.

 

[pkirk25]

I would probably write my own function to do the convertion, I don't think
transform would do it.

Easy enough - thanks.