Error: missing ' ) ' before identifier 'or'

[dmot]

void Process_Sentence (void) /*Process sentences for counting words and lines*/
{
	Sent_Word = 0;

	do
	{
		Non_Word_Character();
		if (Succ_New_Line < 2)
		{	
			Succ_New_Line = 0;
			Word_Character();
				Sent_Word++;
		}
			
	}while (Next_Char != '.' or '?' or '!') & (Succ_New_Line < 2 );

}

Above is a piece of code to add 1 to a count when a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark is used. However when I try and compile it tells me that:

missing ' ) ' before identifier 'or'.

Can anyone help???

[Ganon11]

You should use || instead of or.

[RedSon]

Do you have any expierence writing c/c++ code? Have you been able to build and compile a hello world app? I think you would benefit alot from reading this.

[RedSon]

And this, espically the do-while loop section.

[dmot]

You should use || instead of or.

I've done that and it now tells me that:

'&' requires l-value

Can you help with this?

[RedSon]

I've done that and it now tells me that:

'&' requires l-value

Can you help with this?

Did you read the information on cplusplus website? What you are doing is making extreamly novice errors that tell me that this might be your first time ever writing code in c/c++. It takes a long time to get started and to learn the syntax and I am not patient enough to hold your hand through it. You need to be a self-starter and work through some of the tutorials provided on this site and the cplusplus site.

However, I will give you this one freebie. The condition of a while loop must have distict boolean statements in oder to make sense.

So it is bad if you do this

while ( aNum != 0 || 1 || 2 || 3)

It needs to be

while (aNum != 0 || aNum != 1 || aNum !=2 ... and so on)

Each element between the || operators evaluates to either true or false.

[dmot]

Do you have any expierence writing c/c++ code? Have you been able to build and compile a hello world app? I think you would benefit alot from reading this.

I have no experience as I am currently doing a course in it. This is my first assignment and is due in tuesday. Am currently trying to work out the errors when I compile.

[RedSon]

I can tell this is your first assignment. If you have a textbook you should take an hour and read through the chapters your instructor has asked you to read. If you still do not understand what is going on, then the next step is to contact your instructor and ask them for help. After all that is why they are getting paid, to teach you something. If that doesnt work try working through some tutorials online written by much smarter people then myself. Lastly if you are still haveing problems then post your code again, and describe what you think the problems are and what you think the solution is.