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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 21:09:44 -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: Program, uses compare() to check characters, but doesnt work
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This program is supposed to check if two phrases entered are anagrams of each 
other, by comparing every character in 'input1' to every character in 
'input2'. It doesnt work, unfortunately; the compiler gives me a series of 
messages:

anagram.cc(36) Error : no matching function for call to 'basic_string<char, 
string_char_traits<char>___default__alloc__template...etc

its really long, so i dont want to write out the whole thing here, but if 
someone needs it to help me out, ill put it up. Any help is greatly 
appreciated, as always.


//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;
 if(input1.length() > input2.length())
   greater = input1.length();
 else
   greater = input2.length();

 int equal = 0;

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

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

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

  }


 if(equal != 0)
  {
   cout << "The strings are not anagrams.";
   return 0;
  }
 else
  {
   cout << "The strings are anagrams! What luck!";
   return 0;
  }
}


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