Friend of mine is pull his hair out over this problem.

[Dandred]

He's as old as me 43, and doing a coding course, I didn't learn any but how can it be solved?

 

[DaphneM]

replace what is within the " " with Humanity, Righteousness, Propriety, Wisdom

would be my guess

 

[a_chap]

I can see why your friend's pulling his hair out.

If an examiner gave me that piece of crap to solve, I'd pull their hair out...

 

[mauvais]

sentence[0] = 'H'
sentence[1] = 'u'
sentence[2] = 'm'
sentence[3] = 'a'
sentence[6] = 't'
sentence[7] = 'y'

etc

which is stupid and laborious but there doesn't seem to be any relationship between the original and the desired output, plus it's what the question tells you to do.

Alternatively you could define the desired output as another variable, and then iterate through 'sentence', replacing the mismatched characters. It doesn't look like that's what's being asked for, but the people who write these often do a bad job.

 

[spudulike]

Agree with mauvais, in particular only processing indices that need changing.

 

[Dandred]

Thank you guys!

 

[izz]

Well it has been a awfly long time since I cut any code, is this C ? Or similar ? Mayhap it's a test of a for loop or something,

// write your code here
char source [] = "Humanity and the rest of that bollix."
for (int i=0; i < strlen(source); i++)
sentence = source;

But it's a poor example, it's difficult to work out what the questioner is trying to achieve. And yes there are probably errors in the code but it has been decades so apologies to better coders than me , and lets face it, to achieve copying one string into another there's:

// write your code here
strcpy (sentence, "Humanity and the rest of that bollix");

 

[High Voltage]

Couldn't you just print the list out and then manually cut up all the lines using a scalpel and stick them in the order you wanted onto another piece of paper using sticky magic tape

 

[izz]

Couldn't you just print the list out and then manually cut up all the lines using a scalpel and stick them in the order you wanted onto another piece of paper using sticky magic tape

Well my darling there are always many ways to solve a problem and this would probably work in your world

 

[Dandred]

Thanks for all the help, I have no clue but he is happy now, it's like a light went off in his head, "Ah, it was that easy" Fool is going to get no help next time

 

[High Voltage]

Only happy to have been able to help. Sometime the old ways are the best ways

 

[Storm Fox]

Looking at the input string, I would say you can add or subtract a value to char to get output. Each word is the same length as the output string. But without looking at ASCII tables I don't know, or that could be a red herring. As izz said it's not clear what the questioner wants'

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Sounds to me like they want you to replace the 'incorrect' characters with the right ones, but leave the 'correct' ones (i.e. "ni", "ight", "ess", etc.) in place - basically what Mauvais said. I don't see what you're learning by doing that, though, aside from knowing that strings can be arrays.

 

[a_chap]

... it's not clear what the questioner wants'

The questioner wants a punch up the bracket.

 

[mauvais]

Sounds to me like they want you to replace the 'incorrect' characters with the right ones, but leave the 'correct' ones (i.e. "ni", "ight", "ess", etc.) in place - basically what Mauvais said. I don't see what you're learning by doing that, though, aside from knowing that strings can be arrays.

I suppose it demonstrates that you know arrays are zero-indexed, and that spaces are entries.