I am doing my program here which is a simple input characters classify them and display them, it has other functions as well. My problem is that i had to modify my program starting to use pointers. In the menu number 7 it asks for a charcter you want to replace and then it replaces it in the string if it is avaialable, now here is my problem after replacing characters in the string with new ones i have to classify the string again to make sure it is updated. In my case 7 i use the functions Modify() and count() to replace characters, i have a classify () function but it does not go well, basically you can't use it again or call it. Here is the reason why in my clasiffy function i ask the user to input characters the string can not be bigger than 60, i have to monitor every character along the way, if a blank character or return is hit its gotta end the process. I want to make my classify function to be general with out the process of asking for characters and monitor, i want to modify it so you can call it to just update the summary. How do i go about this and still monitor the characters being inputed, do i make another funcition or do i just replicate the classify code in my modify code and update it that way, that seems so repititive and not good programming. Need help tackling this problem, my code is blow, all of it.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <iostream.h>


void instruct(void);
void classify(char cInput[], float fstats[], int i, int iOdd, int iEven, int iUpper,
int iLower, int iOaverage, int iEaverage);
void summary(float fstats[], int i, int iOdd, int iEven, int iUpper,
int iLower, int iOaverage, int iEaverage);
int count(char cChoice, char cInput[]);
int search(char cGet, char cInput[]);
void menu(void);
int modify ( const char x, const char y, char *s);


void main(void)
{

int iOdd=1, iEven=2;
int i=0, iCheck=0, j, iChange = 0;
int iUpper=3, iLower=4;
int iOaverage =5, iEaverage=6;
char cInput [61] = {"0"};
float fstats[7]={0,0,0,0,0,0,0};
char cPick , cChoice, cGet, cReplace;

cInput[i]='\0';
menu();
cPick = getche();

for (;cPick != '9'; )
{
switch(cPick)
{
case '1': system("cls");
cInput[i]='\0';
instruct();
for (j=0; j<=6; j++)
fstats[j]=0;
classify(cInput,fstats,i,iOdd,iEven,iUpper,iLower,iOaverage,iEaverage);
break;

case '2': iCheck = strlen(cInput);
if (iCheck >=1)
{
system("cls");
for (j=0; j<iCheck;j++)
printf("%c", cInput[j]);
printf("\n");
}
else
printf("\nThere is no string in the memory please input a string first\n");
//cin.clear();
//cin.ignore(80,'\n');
//cin.get();
system("pause");
break;

case '5': iCheck = strlen(cInput);
if (iCheck >=1)
{
system("cls");
printf("Please input the character to search:");
cGet = getche();
if (search(cGet, cInput) > 0)
printf("\nthe character occurs first at the index %d\n",search(cGet,cInput));
else
printf("\nthere are no occurences of that character\n");
}
else
printf("\nThere is no string in the memory please input a string first\n");

//cin.get();
system("pause");
break;

case '6': iCheck = strlen(cInput);
if (iCheck >=1)
{
system("cls");
printf("please input character:");
cChoice = getche();
if (count(cChoice,cInput) >0)
printf("\nThere are %d occurences of the character %c\n", count(cChoice, cInput), cChoice);
else
printf("\nthere are no occurences of that character\n");
}
else
printf("\nThere is no string in the memory please input a string first\n");
//cin.get();
system("pause");
break;

case '8': iCheck = strlen(cInput);
if (iCheck >=1)
{
system("cls");
summary(fstats,i,iOdd,iEven,iUpper,iLower,iOaverage,iEaverage);
}
else
printf("\nThere is no string in the memory please input a string first\n");
//cin.get();
system("pause");
break;

case '7': iCheck = strlen(cInput);
if (iCheck >=1)
{
system("cls");
printf("character to be replaced:");
cChoice = getche();
if (count(cChoice,cInput) >0)
{
printf("\nWith:");
cReplace = getche();
iChange = modify(cChoice,cReplace,cInput);
printf("\nThere have been %d changes made to the string\n", iChange);
}
else
printf("\nthere are no occurences of that character\n");
}
else
printf("\nThere is no string in the memory please input a string first\n");
system("pause");
break;
}
system("cls");
menu();
cPick = getche();
}
printf("\n\n");

}

void instruct(void)
{
printf("To terminate the program, strike the spacebar or Enter.\n\n\n");
printf("Next key>");
}

void classify(char cInput[], float fstats[], int i, int iOdd, int iEven, int iUpper,
int iLower, int iOaverage, int iEaverage)
{
int j =0, iResult =0;
char cTemp;

cTemp = getche();

for(;((cTemp != 32) && (cTemp!= 13)); ) //ascii 32 for blank and 13 for carriage return
{
if ( j<=59)
{
if (isalpha(cTemp) != 0)
{
if (isupper(cTemp) !=0)
fstats[iUpper]++;
else
fstats[iLower]++;
}

if(isdigit(cTemp) !=0)
{
if( (cTemp%2) == 0)
{
fstats[iEven]++;
iResult = cTemp - '0';
fstats[iEaverage] = (fstats[iEaverage] + iResult);
}

else
{
fstats[iOdd]++;
iResult = cTemp - '0';
fstats[iOaverage] = (fstats[iOaverage] + iResult);
}
}

if ((cTemp != 8) && (cTemp != 9))
{
cInput[j]= cTemp;
cInput[j+1] = '\0';
fstats[i]++;
j++;
}
cTemp = getche();
}
else
{
printf("\nYou cannot enter more than 60 characters, the first 60 characters will remain\n");
//printf("hit enter to continue");
//cin.get();
system("pause");
break;
}
}// for loop

if (fstats[iEven] ==0)
fstats[iEaverage] =0;
else
fstats[iEaverage]= fstats[iEaverage]/fstats[iEven];

if (fstats[iOdd] ==0)
fstats[iOaverage] =0;
else
fstats[iOaverage] = fstats[iOaverage]/fstats[iOdd];
}

void summary(float fstats[], int i, int iOdd, int iEven, int iUpper,
int iLower, int iOaverage, int iEaverage)
{
system("cls");

printf("Thank you! Your summary:\n\n");
printf("Total number of keystrokes entered:%.f\n", fstats[i]);
printf("Upper case alphabetic characters:%.f\n", fstats[iUpper]);
printf("Lower case alphabetic characters:%.f\n", fstats[iLower]);
printf("Even digits:%.f\n", fstats[iEven]);
printf("Odd digits:%.f\n", fstats[iOdd]);
printf("Average value of the even digits entered:%.2f\n", fstats[iEaverage]);
printf("Average value of the odd digits entered:%.2f\n", fstats[iOaverage]);

}

int count(char cChoice, char *cInput)
{
int i, iNum, iTotal =0;

iNum = strlen(cInput);
for ( i=0; i<iNum; i++, cInput = cInput + 1)
{
if (cChoice == *cInput)
iTotal++;
}

return iTotal;
}


int search(char cGet, char *cInput)
{
int i, iIndex=0, iNum=0;

iNum = strlen(cInput);
for (i=0; i < iNum; i++)
{
if (cGet == cInput[i])
{
iIndex = i;
iIndex++;
break;
}
}

return iIndex;
}

void menu(void)
{
printf("1. Enter a string of characters\n");
printf("2. Display the current string\n");
printf("3. Write current string to file\n");
printf("4. Read a string from a file\n");
printf("5. Search for a character\n");
printf("6. Count occurences of a specific character\n");
printf("7. Replace all occurences\n");
printf("8. Produce a summary report on the current string\n");
printf("9. Exit\n\n");

}

int modify ( const char x, const char y, char *s)
{
int iNum, j, i=0;

iNum = strlen(s);
for ( j=0; j < iNum; j++, s= s+1)
{
if (x == *s)
{
*s = y;
i++;
}
}

return i;
}

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