[jsbeckton]

I've been working on a program over the last few days that asks to create an array of pointers to char called article noun verb and preposition. Basically I need to create random sentences in the format article noun verb preposition article noun verb. The sentences need to start with a capital letter and end with a period.

It sounded pretty simple at first but I seem to be getting lost in how to generate random sentences where the pointers have different rows and collums. There is nothiong similar to this in my book. This s what I have so far, any "pointers" would be greatly appreciated! (bet you haven't heard that on before. )

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>


void sentenceGenerator(  char article[],  char noun[],  char verb[],
         char preposition[], char article[],  char noun[] );

int main()
{
	const char *article[5]=    { "the", "a", "one", "some", "any",  };
	const char *noun[5]=       { "boy", "girl", "dog", "town", "car", };
	const char *verb[5]=       { "drove","jumped", "ran", "walked", "skipped", };
	const char *preposition[5]={ "to", "from", "over", "under", "on",  };
	int i;

    
	for ( i = 0; i < 6; i++ );
	
  *( article)     = i;
  *( noun )        = i;
  *( verb )        = i;
  *( preposition ) = i;

      srand( time( 0 ) );

      void sentenceGenerator( artical, noun, verb, preposition, article, noun )

    }
}

void sentenceGenerator(  char article[],  char noun[],  char verb[],
         char preposition[], char article[],  char noun[] )
{

	int i;
	for (i = 0; i <20; i++)
	{
  printf( "%s%s%s%s%s%s.\n", *article, *noun, *verb, *preposition, *article, *noun );
	}
}

This post has been edited by jsbeckton: 11 October 2005 - 04:48 PM

[Amadeus]

What exactly is giving you the trouble? Once you've set your arrays, you'll implement an algorithm that allows to to obtain members of the arrays in the sequence required...you've got a start on it...is there something in particular that is causing problems?

[fyrestorm]

i can tell you that you're going to get an error with this line:

*( artical )     = i;

[jsbeckton]

in my prototype, its giving me errors because of "redefinition" in "article" and "noun" but I need to use them twice in my alogarithm.

[Amadeus]

Actually, you need to access those arrays twice...just use two separate variables, one for each access...you can even make sure you don't repeat.

[jsbeckton]

I removed the initializers and modified the pointer arrays to include additional article and noun pointer arrays, however it seems that there must be another way to use those pointer arrays twice.

updated code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>


void sentenceGenerator(  char article1[],  char noun1[],  char verb[],
         char preposition[], char article[],  char noun[] );

int main()
{
    const char *article1[5]=    { "the", "a", "one", "some", "any",  };
	const char *noun1[5]=       { "boy", "girl", "dog", "town", "car", };
	const char *article[5]=    { "the", "a", "one", "some", "any",  };
	const char *noun[5]=       { "boy", "girl", "dog", "town", "car", };
	const char *verb[5]=       { "drove","jumped", "ran", "walked", "skipped", };
	const char *preposition[5]={ "to", "from", "over", "under", "on",  };
    int i;

    
	

      srand( time( 0 ) );

      void sentenceGenerator( article, noun, verb, preposition, artical, noun )

    }
}

void sentenceGenerator(  char article1[],  char noun1[],  char verb[],
         char preposition[], char article[],  char noun[] )
{
    int i;
	
	for (i = 0; i <20; i++)
	{
        
  printf( "%s%s%s%s%s%s\n", article, noun, verb, preposition, article, noun );
	}
}

This post has been edited by jsbeckton: 11 October 2005 - 07:53 PM

[born2c0de]

Good to see that you cleaned up your loop. However your printf statement will continue showing the same values everytime.Make the following change.

printf( "%s%s%s%s%s%s\n", article, noun, verb++, preposition++, article++, noun++);

Increment the article and noun only later because if done before, the article and noun value printed from the same printf statement will be different as it would have been incremented.

[jsbeckton]

After changing the print function to :

printf( "%s%s%s%s%s%s\n", article, noun, verb++, preposition++, article++, noun++ );

I am getting error messages saying "++ needs 1-value" for all 4 strings.

[born2c0de]

My Mistake.

printf( "%s%s%s%s%s%s\n", *article, *noun, verb++, *preposition++, *article++, *noun++ );

I'm not close to a compiler now so please tell me if that works or not.

[jsbeckton]

Same error message saying that "++" needs 1-value.

[Amadeus]

Can you repost your entire program? It will be easier to debug.

[jsbeckton]

just made a few more changes, down to one error but cant remove one of the } without big problems:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void sentenceGenerator(  char ,  char ,  char , char , char ,  char  );
        

int main()
{
 
	const char *article[5]=    { "the", "a", "one", "some", "any",  };
	const char *noun[5]=       { "boy", "girl", "dog", "town", "car", };
	const char *verb[5]=       { "drove","jumped", "ran", "walked", "skipped", };
	const char *preposition[5]={ "to", "from", "over", "under", "on",  };
   

    
	
	
      

       void sentenceGenerator( article, noun, verb, preposition, artical, noun );

}
}

void sentenceGenerator(  char article[],  char noun[],  char verb[],
         char preposition[], char article[],  char noun[] )
{
    int i;
	
	for (i = 0; i <20; i++)
	{
        
  printf( "%s%s%s%s%s%s\n", rand(article), rand(noun),  rand(verb++), rand(preposition++), 
  	rand(article++), rand(noun++) );
	}
}

This post has been edited by jsbeckton: 13 October 2005 - 07:47 AM

[jsbeckton]

If i remove the second "}" i get a bunch of errors.

This post has been edited by jsbeckton: 13 October 2005 - 07:48 AM

[Amadeus]

I'm going to take a look at it, but you should know that leaving an extra bracket in the code does not get rid of errors, it only stops the compiler from seeing other errors. It will have to be removed.

[jsbeckton]

I was afraid you'd say that!