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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:29:08 -0400
Sender: Ramy Elmeligy <Ramiman12 AT MailAndNews DOT com>
From: Ramy Elmeligy <Ramiman12 AT MailAndNews DOT com>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Subject: RE: Program, uses compare() to check for anagrams, but doesnt work
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Sorry about that last message, i was insanely frustrated, next time ill be 
more clear.
The good news is, now the program compiles fine, thanks to Hans' tip(surprised 
i didnt catch that, its happened to me before).
However, upon compilation, the program does what it should up to the line that 
says "Lets see if your strings are anagrams of each other."
Then it does an endl and shows a blinking cursor, and the program doesnt do 
anything after that. I'm effectively stuck as to what to do, since there are 
two for() loops and an if() statement after this which should be executed. 
I'll repost the source, since ive made some changes, and besides,  i dont 
think anyone values my emails enough to store them :)

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//Exercise - Anagram Checker
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
 string input1;
 string input2;

 cout << "Enter a line of text: ";
 getline(cin, input1);
 cout << endl;

 cout << "Enter another line of text: ";
 getline(cin, input2);
 cout << endl;

 cout << "Let's see if your strings are anagrams of each other. "
      << endl;

 int greater = 0;
 int lesser = 0;

 if(input1.length() > input2.length())
  {
   greater = input1.length();
   lesser = input2.length();
  }
 else
  {
   greater = input2.length();
   lesser = input1.length();
  }

 int equal = 0;

 int a = 0;
 int b = 1;
 int c = 0;


 equal = input1.substr(a, b).compare(input2, c, b);

 for( ; c < lesser ; )
  {
   for( ; a < greater, equal == 0 ; a++)
     {
      input1.substr(a, b).compare(input2, c, b);
     }
   if(a >= greater)
   {
    a = 0;
    c++;
   }
  }


 if(input1.substr(a, b).compare(input2, c, b) != 0)
  {
   cout << "The strings are not anagrams.";
   return 0;
  }
 else
  {
   cout << "The strings are anagrams! What luck!";
   return 0;
  }
}

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