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Vic,
You should just copy the input-string to some temp-string.
Invert the input-string and  just do a strcmp(input-string, temp-string)
If strcmp returns zero, you have your palindrome.  Be sure to convert your
input to all upper or lower case.





Victor <bushmills@tesco.net> wrote in message
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> I have been asked to design a project to determine whether a word is a
> palindrome or not (btw a plaindrome is a word that is the same backwards
ie
> noon).
>
> I have been able to run the program successfully with some words but it
> doesn't seem to like the word 'deer'  and other words with the same middle
> letters.  It thinks that it is a palindrome which is not true.
>
> Could somebody help please.
>
> Thanks for your time . . .
>
>
>
> #include <condefs.h>
> #include "Project1io.h"
> #pragma hdrstop
>
>
>
file://---------------------------------------------------------------------
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> -
> USELIB("Project1io.LIB");
>
file://---------------------------------------------------------------------
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> -
> #pragma argsused
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>   int Front;
>   int Back;
>   char Palindrome;
>   AnsiString InputString;
>     InputString = ReadStringPr("Enter your non-empty string for testing");
>     Front = 1;
>     Back = Length(InputString);
>     while (Front < Back)
>       {
>         if (InputString[Front] == InputString[Back])
>           Palindrome = true;
>         else
>         Palindrome = false;
>         Front = Front + 1;
>         Back = Back - 1;
>       }
>     if (Palindrome == true)
>       WriteString("Yes, it is a palindrome");
>     else
>       WriteString("No it is not a palindrome");
>
>     getchar();
>     return 0;
> }
>
>
>
>
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