Reading Strings

[compman9902]

Thank you for reading this discussion, your help is greatly appreciated.
My problem is that I am trying to make a program that reads a string and one by one picks the letter and gives it the preassigned integer.
Everything is going great, the only problem is that I cannot seem to get my program to read the string peice by peice. Here is the code:

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <sstream>
#include <string.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string input;
int position;
char letter;
cin  >> input;
original[position] = letter;
...

The only part of the code that is giving me trouble is the "original[position] = letter;" part.
Again, thank you for your time and effort.

--Parker Woods

[DeMan]

I'm afraid you may have to post some more code, it is not clear where letter, position or original are set/initialised, and since you think the problem may be at a line that involves all three, it would be nice to be able to trace what they all should be.

[compman9902]

I'm afraid you may have to post some more code, it is not clear where letter, position or original are set/initialised, and since you think the problem may be at a line that involves all three, it would be nice to be able to trace what they all should be.

They are all variable. But for example's sake, I will do this:

original[position] = letter;
original = "aAbBcC";
position = 2;

The only problem is that I cannot get "letter" to equal "b".
I just need help on how to do that

--Parker Woods

[DeMan]

try:

letter = original[position];

[Roonie]

(and put it after

original = "aAbBcC";
position = 2;

)

[compman9902]

try:

letter = original[position];

Thank you very much, it worked perfectly.
Such a simple solution to a seemingly complex problem
Thanks again

[DeMan]

No worries, any time!!