#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#define SIZE 5
void select_word(const char *const art[], const char *const noun[],
const char *const verb[], const char *const prep[]);
void build_sentence(const char *const sentence[]);
int main()
{
int i;
const char *art [SIZE] = { "the", "a", "one", "some", "any",};
const char *noun[SIZE] = { "boy", "girl", "dog", "town", "car",};
const char *verb[SIZE] = { "drove","jumped", "ran", "walked", "skipped",};
const char *prep[SIZE] = { "to", "from", "over", "under", "on",};
srand(time(0));
for(i=0; i<3; i++)
select_word( art, noun, verb, prep );
return 0;
}
void select_word(const char *const art[], const char *const noun[],
const char *const verb[], const char *const prep[])
{
const char *sentence [6] = {
art [rand() % SIZE],
noun [rand() % SIZE],
verb [rand() % SIZE],
prep [rand() % SIZE],
art [rand() % SIZE],
noun [rand() % SIZE]};
build_sentence(sentence);
}
void build_sentence (const char *const sentence[]) {
printf( "%s %s %s %s %s %s. \n",
sentence [0],
/* I am attempting to use the 'toupper' function to make the the first word in a randomly generated sentence be upper-case. I think I put a printf function between sentence [0] and sentence [1] */
sentence [1],
sentence [2],
sentence [3],
sentence [4],
sentence [5]);
}
The problem that you won't be able to use it to your strings in-place, since they are constant. You will need to use some writable storage for the result. If you don't want to, you can uppercase only the first character of the first word and then write the first word starting with the second character right in the printf:
printf( "%c%s %s %s %s %s %s. \n",
toupper(sentence[0][0]),
&sentence[0][1],
sentence[1],
..........