Re: How to display individual character using string?

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:19:30 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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On Jun 9, 8:20 pm, Alan Woodland <aj...@aber.ac.uk> wrote:

Harald Finster wrote:

Immortal Nephi wrote:

// how to use loop to print each character individual between space?

[snip]> //

  // suggestion2:
  // better: using for_each
  // use the 'print' method defined above is executed for each
  // character of the string which can be regarded as a
  // sequence of chars
  //
  for_each( s1.begin(),s1.end(),print);
  cout << endl;

  //
  // suggestion3:
  // like suggestion2 but
  // more object oriented style:
  // use a function object instead of the global function
  // operator() of WhiteSpaceSeparatedPrinter is executed
  // for each character in the string

  WhiteSpaceSeparatedPrinter whiteSpaceSeparatedPrinter;
  for_each( s1.begin(), s1.end(), whiteSpaceSeparatedPrinter );
  cout << endl;

  // you could probably also use a stream_iterator in combination
  // with a function


Better still:

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
string s1 = "The cat is cute.";
cout << s1 << endl;

copy(s1.begin(), s1.end(), ostream_iterator<char>(cout, " "));

return 0;
}


Which outputs an extra space at the end. (It would be nice if
there were a variant of ostream_iterator which generated
separators correctly, but there isn't.) One could add a test
and use the ostream_iterator for all but the last character,
something like:

    if ( ! s1.empty() ) {
        std::copy( s1.begin(),
                   s1.end() - 1,
                   std::ostream_iterator< char >( std::cout, " " ) ) ;
        std::cout << *(s1.end() - 1) ;
    }

But that still wouldn't meet the stated requirement: "use a loop
to print each character[...]". (Of course, such a requirement
clearly indicates homework.)

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