Chapter 3, Problem 8PP

Program Plan Intro

Program Plan:

To output the length of a name using proper formatting and appropriate comments.

Following functions are used in the program:

Getline(): used to read a string from console.

find(): used to find the index of the first occurrence of the sub-string being called in the specified string.

substr(pos,n): It is a predefined function that returns a copied string for n characters starting with the index pos.

length(): returns the length of a string.

cout: used to display output to the console.

Summary Introduction:

Program will use the main () method to ask the user to enter the string name. find() method is used to get the index(i) of the first occurrence of space delimiter then extract the first name(substring) from index 0 to index i of string name using substr() method. Similarly, middle name and last name are extracted and finally print the first name, middle name and last name of string name.

Program Description:

The purpose of the program is to break and print the string name entered by the user in three parts as first name, middle name, and last name and find their lengths.