C++ Programming Help: Troubleshooting "<" to ".

[Tom McCurdy]

I am having trouble with this in C++

  while(k < bodyCopy.size())
    {
      bodyCopy[k] = tolower(bodyCopy[k]);
      please=bodyCopy[k];
      cout<<please<<endl;
      if (please='<')
      {
           inTag=1;
      }
      if (inTag==1)
      {
           please='.';
           bodyCopy[k]=please;
      }
              
      if (please=='>')
      {
           inTag=0;
      }         
                                 
      
      
      k = k + 1;
    }

Its supose to replace any thing in string body.Copy between < > with periods but leave everything else alone
currently it changes everything in body.Copy to periods
any idea why??

 

[Tom McCurdy]

If it would help I would post my entire code but I have a feeling that might confuse more then help solve this problem

 

[neurocomp2003]

cuz you need to use the boolean operator not the assignment operator in your "if" statement, very common mistake, i hate making that error.

also some of the code seems unnecessary unless that was your debugging technique.

 

[Tom McCurdy]

cuz you need to use the boolean operator not the assignment operator in your "if" statement, very common mistake, i hate making that error.

also some of the code seems unnecessary unless that was your debugging technique.

Thank you for eyes...

I can't believe I missed that...

now only one problem left

 

[jtbell]

I guess you must not have noticed that the next forum down, "Computers", has a sub-forum named "Programming."