I can't for the life of me get my code to work. It identifies palindromes correctly, but for some reason, some non-palindromes words get marked as palindromes. Not all, just sum. And biggest headache of all, I can't figure out the correlation between of the non-palindromes that pass.
Any other feedback is appreciated.
#include <iostream>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <limits>
using namespace std;
int main() {
const int a(15);
char Line[a + 1];
int i;
do {
cout << "Enter a possible palindrome" << endl;
cin.getline(Line, a + 1);
if (cin.fail())
{
cin.clear();
cin.ignore(numeric_limits<streamsize>::max(), '\n');
}
else;
for (int i = 0; i < strlen(Line); i++) {
Line[i] = (char)tolower(Line[i]);
}
int c = strlen(Line);
for (int i = 0; i < c / 2; i++) {
while (!(((int)Line[c - 1 - i] >= 'a' && (int)Line[c - 1 - i] <= 'z') || ((int)Line[c - 1 - i] >= 'A' && (int)Line[c - 1 - i] <= 'Z'))) {
c--;
}
if ((Line[i] == Line[c - 1 - i]))
{
cout << "is a Palindrome" << endl;
}
else
cout << Line << " is not a palindrome." << endl;
break;
}
} while (strcmp(Line, "END") != 0);
return 0;
The string is a palindrome if the condition Line[i] == Line[c-1-i]
holds for all i < c/2
. You print out that its a palindrome provided two of the characters match.
Eg: Your program would say:
"abdca" //is a palindrome since the first and last character match.