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"Simon" <some_spare_id@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:82ca3381.0401291404.34055371@posting.google.com...

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

string get_input();
string get_output();
void display_output();

int main() //here you are telling the compiler that

main() will return an integer, where is it?

{
string input, output;

input = get_input();
while (input != "QUIT")) { // here you have one parenthesis too

many.

output = get_output(input); //in your function prototype your

declaration does not take a parameter.

display_output(output); //here is the same, you are passing

a parameter when you told your function

//it would not have

one. See more comments at the end.

input = get_input();
}
}

string get_input()
{
string input;

cout << "Enter word or \"QUIT\" to quit:" << endl;
getline(cin, input);

return input;
}

string get_output(const string &input)
{
string output;

if (input == "your") {
output = "Belonging to, or of, you.\n";
} else if (input == "you're") {
output = "Short for \"you are\".\n";
} else {
output = "Invalid input.\n";
}

return output;
}

void display_output(const string &output)
{
cout << output;
}

// Any suggestions are welcome!
//
// Credits:
// Andrew Rutherford

Go ***** yourself and post in the correct newsgroup. Well, sorry for that, it
seems that these harsh comments make you politically correct on this side of
cyberspace. Good luck.

See coments next to code:

"Simon" <some_spare_id@yahoo.com> wrote:

#include <iostream>

//here you are telling the compiler that main() will
return an integer, where is it?
// here you have one parenthesis too many.
//in your function prototype your declaration does
not take a parameter.
//here is the same, you are passing a parameter when
you told your function

//it would not have one. See more comments at the end.

Simon wrote:
|| #include <iostream>
|| #include <string>
||
|| using namespace std;
||
|| string get_input();
|| string get_output();
|| void display_output();
||
|| int main()
|| {
|| string input, output;
||
|| input = get_input();
|| while (input != "QUIT")) {
|| output = get_output(input);
|| display_output(output);
||
|| input = get_input();
|| }
|| }
||
|| string get_input()
|| {
|| string input;
||
|| cout << "Enter word or \"QUIT\" to quit:" << endl;
|| getline(cin, input);
||
|| return input;
|| }
||
|| string get_output(const string &input)
|| {
|| string output;
||
|| if (input == "your") {
|| output = "Belonging to, or of, you.\n";
|| } else if (input == "you're") {
|| output = "Short for \"you are\".\n";
|| } else {
|| output = "Invalid input.\n";
|| }
||
|| return output;
|| }
||
|| void display_output(const string &output)
|| {
|| cout << output;
|| }
||
|| // Any suggestions are welcome!
|| //
|| // Credits:
|| // Andrew Rutherford

Will you just *****, you dopey *****.