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noob question about string manipulation

Author:  qwertyuiop [ Sun Nov 05, 2006 1:10 pm ]
Post subject:  noob question about string manipulation

hey guys im new to turing and i was wondering if any one could help me with a few problems i have...

first is i would like to get a sentence and display it backwards, i.e compscie.ca --->ac.eicspmoc

second i would like to display only the vowels in a sentence, i.e
compscie.ca ---> oiea

thats all for now, thanks guys

Author:  richcash [ Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:17 pm ]
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Read this and see if you get it.
Btw, that's an extremely creative username. Wink

Author:  TokenHerbz [ Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:23 am ]
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ok, i dont get his name...

maybe its late, maybe im tired, but care to explain the creativity of it?

Author:  Clayton [ Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:43 am ]
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it's the top row on the keyboard....
the creative comment was a sarcastic one

on topic:

if you read that tutorial, you should get all you need, basically break the problem down into smaller problems:


  • How to get the string backwards (ie taking each character from the end backwards)
  • Putting the string together
  • Displaying it
  • Finding the vowels
  • Exceptions on unexpected input
  • Putting the string together
  • Display


Learning to problem solve is a major thing to learn for programming (and many other things, this is why someone who is good at math can generally be a good programmer, math students are typically the better problem solvers)


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