At school Im working on a palindrome C program. I'm almost done, but I would like my program to mark both 'Anna' and 'anna' as a palindrome. I tried some stuff out but nothing really worked. My code :
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main() {
char palindroom[50],a;
int lengte, i;
int woord = 0;
printf("This program checks if your word is a palindrome.\n");
printf("Enter your word:\t");
scanf("%s", palindroom);
lengte = strlen(palindroom);
for (i = 0; i < lengte; i++) {
if (palindroom[i] != palindroom[lengte - i - 1]) {
woord = 1;
break;
}
}
if (woord) {
printf("Unfortunately, %s is not palindrome\n\n", palindroom);
}
else {
printf("%s is a palindrome!\n\n", palindroom);
}
getchar();
return 0;
}
I've seen some people using tolower from ctype.h but I'd like to avoid that.
So my question is : how do I convert all uppers to lowers in a string?
[ps. some words I may code might seem odd, but that's Dutch. Just erase an o and you'll understand]
Thanks.
the difference between uppercase and lowercase in ASCII table is 32 so you can add 32 if an uppercase letter is in the input to convert it to lowercase ( http://www.asciitable.com/ ) :
if ((currentletter > 64) && (currentletter < 91))
{
char newletter;
newletter = currentletter + 32;
str[i] = newletter;
}
else
{
str[i] = currentletter;
}
modified program :
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main() {
char palindroom[50],a;
int lengte, i;
int woord = 0;
printf("This program checks if your word is a palindrome.\n");
printf("Enter your word:\t");
scanf("%s", palindroom);
lengte = strlen(palindroom);
for (i = 0; i < lengte; i++)
{
if (palindroom[i] > 64 && palindroom[i] < 91)
{
palindroom[i] = palindroom[i] + 32;
}
if (palindroom[i] != palindroom[lengte - i - 1]) {
woord = 1;
break;
}
}
if (woord) {
printf("Unfortunately, %s is not palindrome\n\n", palindroom);
}
else {
printf("%s is a palindrome!\n\n", palindroom);
}
getchar();
return 0;
}
65
is the decimal representation of A
in the ASCII table, 90
is the decimal representation of Z
while a
is 97
( = 65 +32 ) and z
is 122
( = 90 +32 )