Hello, I am writing a program that takes a sentence and tranforms that sentence into the morse code equivalent. Problem is, when I print the text after the convertion, all the letters after the 1st letter are the same morse code symbol, instead of the correct letter equivalent :/ I been looking over my code trying to see why this is happening, but I cannot see what the problem can be! Can anyone please help me see what I am doing wrong? I'd surely appreciate any help!

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>

#define LETTERS 26
#define NUMBERS 10

void convertToLower(char * sPtr);

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    // Morse Code 0-9
    //char * num_codes[] = {"-----", "----.", "---..", "--...", "-....", ".....", "....-", "...--", "..---", ".----"};
    // Morse Code A-Z
    char * alp_codes[] = {".-", "-...", "-.-.", "-..", ".", "..-.", "--.", "....", "..", ".---", "-.-", ".-..", "--", "-.", "---", ".--.", "--.-", ".-.", "...", "-", "..-", "...-", ".--", "-..-", "-.--", "--.."};
    // A-Z
    const char searchKey[] = {'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z'};
    
    // string variables & attributes
    char random_text[] = "abcd";
    char * txtPtr = random_text;
    int text_size = sizeof(random_text)/sizeof(random_text[0]);
    char * morse_code[text_size];
    int alp_index;
    
    convertToLower(random_text);
    
    // seaches for the searchKey in the txt and
    // converts that character of random_txt to the alp_code
    for(int h = 0; h < text_size; h++)
    {
        for(int i = 0; i < LETTERS; i++)
        {
            txtPtr = strchr(txtPtr, searchKey[i]);
            alp_index = (int)(txtPtr - random_text);
            
            if(txtPtr != NULL)
            {
                txtPtr++;
                morse_code[h] = alp_codes[alp_index];
                break;
            }
        
            txtPtr = random_text;
        }
    }
    
    // prints morse code
    for(int i = 0; i < text_size-1; i++)
    {
        printf("%s | ", morse_code[i]);
    }
    
    return 0;
}

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  FUNCTION DEFINITIONS

void convertToLower(char *sPtr)
{
    while(*sPtr != '\0')
    {
        *sPtr = tolower(*sPtr);
        *sPtr++;
    }
}

Hello, I am writing a program that takes a sentence and tranforms that sentence into the morse code equivalent. Problem is, when I print the text after the convertion, all the letters after the 1st letter are the same morse code symbol, instead of the correct letter equivalent :/ I been looking over my code trying to see why this is happening, but I cannot see what the problem can be! Can anyone please help me see what I am doing wrong? I'd surely appreciate any help!

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>

#define LETTERS 26
#define NUMBERS 10

void convertToLower(char * sPtr);

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    // Morse Code 0-9
    //char * num_codes[] = {"-----", "----.", "---..", "--...", "-....", ".....", "....-", "...--", "..---", ".----"};
    // Morse Code A-Z
    char * alp_codes[] = {".-", "-...", "-.-.", "-..", ".", "..-.", "--.", "....", "..", ".---", "-.-", ".-..", "--", "-.", "---", ".--.", "--.-", ".-.", "...", "-", "..-", "...-", ".--", "-..-", "-.--", "--.."};
    // A-Z
    const char searchKey[] = {'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z'};
    
    // string variables & attributes
    char random_text[] = "abcd";
    char * txtPtr = random_text;
    int text_size = sizeof(random_text)/sizeof(random_text[0]);
    char * morse_code[text_size];
    int alp_index;
    
    convertToLower(random_text);
    
    // seaches for the searchKey in the txt and
    // converts that character of random_txt to the alp_code
    for(int h = 0; h < text_size; h++)
    {
        for(int i = 0; i < LETTERS; i++)
        {
            txtPtr = strchr(txtPtr, searchKey[i]);
            alp_index = (int)(txtPtr - random_text);
            
            if(txtPtr != NULL)
            {
                txtPtr++;
                morse_code[h] = alp_codes[alp_index];
                break;
            }
        
            txtPtr = random_text;
        }
    }
    
    // prints morse code
    for(int i = 0; i < text_size-1; i++)
    {
        printf("%s | ", morse_code[i]);
    }
    
    return 0;
}

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  FUNCTION DEFINITIONS

void convertToLower(char *sPtr)
{
    while(*sPtr != '\0')
    {
        *sPtr = tolower(*sPtr);
        *sPtr++;
    }
}

I changed the code to print out the value of alph_index and found out that after alph_index is incemented to 1, it doesnt increment any higher and just remains 1, I'm not sure why :(

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>

#define LETTERS 26
#define NUMBERS 10

void convertToLower(char * sPtr);

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    // Morse Code 0-9
    //char * num_codes[] = {"-----", "----.", "---..", "--...", "-....", ".....", "....-", "...--", "..---", ".----"};
    // Morse Code A-Z
    char * alp_codes[] = {".-", "-...", "-.-.", "-..", ".", "..-.", "--.", "....", "..", ".---", "-.-", ".-..", "--", "-.", "---", ".--.", "--.-", ".-.", "...", "-", "..-", "...-", ".--", "-..-", "-.--", "--.."};
    // A-Z
    const char searchKey[] = {'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z'};
    
    // string variables & attributes
    char random_text[] = "abcd";
    char * txtPtr = random_text;
    int text_size = sizeof(random_text)/sizeof(random_text[0]);
    char * morse_code[text_size];
    int alp_index;
    
    convertToLower(random_text);
    
    // seaches for the searchKey in the txt and
    // converts that character of random_txt to the alp_code
    for(int h = 0; h < text_size-1; h++)
    {
        for(int i = 0; i < LETTERS; i++)
        {
            txtPtr = strchr(txtPtr, searchKey[i]);
            alp_index = (int)(txtPtr - random_text);
            
            if(txtPtr != NULL)
            {
                txtPtr++;
                morse_code[h] = alp_codes[alp_index];
                printf("(%d) ", alp_index);
                break;
            }
        
            txtPtr = random_text;
        }
    }
    
    // prints morse code
    for(int i = 0; i < text_size-1; i++)
    {
        printf("%s | ", morse_code[i]);
    }
    
    return 0;
}

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  FUNCTION DEFINITIONS

void convertToLower(char *sPtr)
{
    while(*sPtr != '\0')
    {
        *sPtr = tolower(*sPtr);
        *sPtr++;
    }
}

Now is an excellent time to use the debugger to step through your program line by line.

First iteration searches for the letter 'a' in the string "abcd" and advances the string to "bcd". The second iteration searches for the letter 'a' in "bcd" and finds nothing, so the string is reset to "abcd", and proceeds to find 'b' and the string is advanced to "bcd". The third iteration searches for the letter 'a' and finds nothing, so the string is reset to "abcd", and proceeds to find 'b'... and so on.

Your code is kind of hard to follow, you should name your variables with meaningfull names (i and h in the first nested loop sure mean something more).

Also, it's not clear what algorithm you're using, it looks weird, the break instruction will finish the execution of that inner loop when the first letter is found in txtPtr. Are you sure you want to use "break" inside the loop instead of "continue"? With continue you skip the current iteration of the loop, but the loop will be executed again until it finishes.

Also note that a break in an inner loop won't break out of the outer loop (if that's what you intended).

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
 
// Morse code for '0'-'9'
char const *morse_code_of_digit[] = {"-----", "----.", "---..", "--...", "-....", ".....", "....-", "...--", "..---", ".----"};
// Morse code for 'a'-'z'
char const *morse_code_of_alpha[] = {".-", "-...", "-.-.", "-..", ".", "..-.", "--.", "....", "..", ".---", "-.-", ".-..", "--", "-.", "---", ".--.", "--.-", ".-.", "...", "-", "..-", "...-", ".--", "-..-", "-.--", "--.."};

char const *morse_code_of_char(char c) {
  if (isalpha(c))
    return morse_code_of_alpha[tolower(c) - 'a'];
  if (isdigit(c))
    return morse_code_of_digit[c - '0'];
  return "";
}

int main(void) {
  char const *message = "abcd";
  int message_length = strlen(message);
  
  char const *morse_code[message_length];
  
  for (int i = 0; i < message_length; ++i)
    morse_code[i] = morse_code_of_char(message[i]);
  
  for(int i = 0; i < message_length; i++) {
    if (i > 0) printf(" | ");
    printf("%s", morse_code[i]);
  }
  puts("");
  
  return 0;
}