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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Transposing string Post 302167160 by unibboy on Wednesday 13th of February 2008 04:15:50 PM
Old 02-13-2008
Transposing string

Hello guys,

can some please give driection as to how to archieve this big issue i am having:

I a random number that has been generated and wants the user to guess it, let me illustrate this:

say the random i hve generated is 'nice'
- i then hide it from the user and display it in ----
-but now if the use enter 'n' because it is in the random word, i would then display to them n---
and so until they get all the letters

i have used a while loop, but i seem to be loosing previously guessed letters
 

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STRSTR(3)						     Library Functions Manual							 STRSTR(3)

NAME
strstr - locate a substring in a string SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h> char * strstr(big, little) char *big, *little; DESCRIPTION
The strstr() function locates the first occurrence of the null-terminated string little in the null-terminated string big. If little is the empty string, strstr() returns big; if little occurs nowhere in big, strstr() returns NULL; otherwise strstr() returns a pointer to the first character of the first occurrence of little. SEE ALSO
index(3), memchr(3), rindex(3), strchr(3), strcspn(3), strpbrk(3), strrchr(3), strsep(3), strspn(3), strtok(3) STANDARDS
The strstr() function conforms to ANSI C X3/159-1989 (``ANSI C''). 4.4 Berkeley Distribution January 15, 1996 STRSTR(3)
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