----------------------------------- qwertyuiop Sun Nov 05, 2006 1:10 pm 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 ----------------------------------- richcash Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:17 pm ----------------------------------- Read Btw, that's an extremely creative username. :wink: ----------------------------------- TokenHerbz Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:23 am ----------------------------------- ok, i dont get his name... maybe its late, maybe im tired, but care to explain the creativity of it? ----------------------------------- Clayton Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:43 am ----------------------------------- 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)