Exercise 2-1

Change the framing program (Exercise 2-0) so that it writes its greeting with no separation from the frame.

Solution

The sort of output that we are after looks like this:

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<p><em>Hello, Johnny!</em></p>

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i.e. We can just simply re-use the same program that we wrote in Exercise 2-0, except this time we change the padding of 1 (space character) to 0 (space characters). In other word, no padding round the greeting message.

For completeness sake, I have copied and pasted the code from Exercise 2-0 here. Note that this time I change the const int pad value to 0. (See line 23 below!)

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<h1>include &lt;iostream&gt;</h1>

<h1>include &lt;string&gt;</h1>

<p>// say what standard-library names we use
using std::cin;
using std::endl;
using std::cout;
using std::string;</p>

<p>int main()
{
    // ask for the person's name
    cout &lt;&lt; &quot;Please enter your first name: &quot;;</p>

<pre><code>// read the name
string name;
cin &amp;gt;&amp;gt; name;

// build the message that we intend to write
const string greeting = &amp;quot;Hello, &amp;quot; + name + &amp;quot;!&amp;quot;;

// the number of blanks surrounding the greeting
const int pad = 0; // no padding this time

// the number of rows and columns to write
const int rows = ( pad * 2 ) + 3;
const string::size_type cols = greeting.size() + ( pad * 2 ) + 2;

// write a blank line to separate the output from the input
cout &amp;lt;&amp;lt; endl;

// write 'rows' rows of output
// invariant: we have written r rows so far
for ( int r = 0; r != rows ; ++r )
{
    string::size_type c = 0;

    // invariant: we have written c characters so far in the current row
    while ( c != cols)
    {
        // is it time to write the greeting?
        if ( ( r == pad + 1 ) &amp;amp;&amp;amp; ( c == pad + 1 ) )
        {
            cout &amp;lt;&amp;lt; greeting;
            c += greeting.size();
        }
        else
        {
            // are we on the border?
            if (
                   ( r == 0 )         // top row
                || ( r == rows - 1 )  // or bottom row
                || ( c == 0 )         // or left-most column
                || ( c == cols - 1 )  // or right-most column
               )
            {
                cout &amp;lt;&amp;lt;  &amp;quot;*&amp;quot;;
            }
            else
            {
                cout &amp;lt;&amp;lt; &amp;quot; &amp;quot;;
            }
            ++c;
        }
    }
    cout &amp;lt;&amp;lt; endl;
}
return 0;
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Result

The program compiles successfully and produce the following output in the standard console output window.

Please enter your first name: Johnny</p>

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<p><em>Hello, Johnny!</em></p>

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<p>Process returned 0 (0x0)   execution time : 2.905 s
Press any key to continue.

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