Hi to all, I am a newbi

[DamiLeon]

Hi, I am supose to do a program in C++ that tests for a password
it should do the following:

a- the password should be between 6 and nine characters
b- the password should contain at least one upper case and at least one lowercase letter
c- the password should contain at least one digit

the program works fine to check for requirements b and c but it does not work properly when I check the string length here is the code I got so far:
Thanks is advance :)

#include <iostream>
#include <cctype>
#include <cstring>

using namespace std;

bool testlower( char [], int);
bool testupper( char[], int);
bool testdigit( char[],int);
bool testnum(char[]);



int main()
{
	int const size = 10;  //can handle 9 characters 
	char password[size];


	cout <<" Enter your password:" <<endl; 
	cout <<" Make sure that its more than six characters\n";
	cout <<" and its less than 9 characters long.\n";
	cout <<" has at least one digit and \n";
	cout <<" at least one uppercase and lower case letter\n";
	cout <<" otherwise the program wont work proberly, thank you for you cooporation\n";
	cin.getline(password,size);

	
	if ((testlower( password, size) && testupper (password,size) && testdigit ( password,size)&& testnum(password))== true)
	cout <<"the password that you entered is valid\n";
	

	if ( testlower( password,size) == false )
	{
		cout<<" the password that you entered is invalid because there is\n";
		cout<<" no lower case letter in your password.\n";
	}
	 if( testupper( password, size) == false)
	 {
		 cout<<" the password that you entered is invalid because there is\n";
		 cout<<" no upper case letter in your password.\n";
	 }
	 if ( testdigit(password,size) == false)
	 {
		 cout<<" the password that you enterd is invalid because there is\n";
		 cout<<" not digits in your password\n";
	 }
	 if (testnum(password)== false)
	 {
		 cout<<" the password that you entered is invalid because the number\n";
		 cout<<" of characters is less than 6 or is more than 9 \n";
	 }
	
	return 0;

	
}
//-------------------------------------------------------

bool testlower(char password[], int size)
{
	for ( int count=0; count < (size-1); count++)
	{
		if( islower(password[count]))
		
			return true;
		
		
	}
	return false;
}
//--------------------------------------------------------

bool testupper( char password[], int size)
{
	for ( int count=0; count < (size-1); count++)
	{
		if ( isupper( password[count]))
		
			return true;
	
		
	}
return false;
}
//-------------------------------------------------------
bool testdigit( char password[], int size)
{
	for ( int count=0; count < (size-1); count++)
	{
		if ( isdigit(password[count]))
		
			return true;
		
		
	}
	
	return false;
}
//this is where the code in not working properly I tried to modify it in many ways
//but still can't get the right asnwer

bool testnum( char password[])
{	
	int length;
	length = strlen(password); 
	
  if( length < 6 || length <=9)
  {
	  return false;
  }

  return true;
}

[Ancient Dragon]

>>but it does not work properly when I check the string length
Just add code to call strlen() to get the password length the check if it is <= 9. If you really wrote all that code you posted you should have no problem checking for length.

[WaltP]

Another thing to consider, what if the user enters 15 characters? All you read are the first 9 and he thinks his password is longer than it is. You should probably accept more characters and give an error if 10 or more are entered.

[wambooman]

length < 6

I read lengthsmaller than 6. I don't think you want that