Thread: Deal or No Deal arrays

I am attempting a deal or no deal game for a class. I have everything working, except for if the player wishes to review the remaining cash prizes.

To start i have 2 arrays. One containing the prize values, and the other being the cases (filled at random with values from the prize array).

I cannot display the remaining prizes directly from the cases array, as that would show what cases had what value. Instead, i must display them in increasing value, so as to hide their true order.

Whenever i "open" a case the value is set to 0 in the cases array, but the prizes array is never changed. The problem is that if i open a case, this following function just outputs a blank line. What is wrong?

Code:

int prizelook (int cases[], int prizes[], int arraylength){

  int sentinal = 0;
  int i = 0;
  int j = 0;

  
  for (i=0; i<SIZE; i++){
  sentinal = 0;
  j = 0;
    while (sentinal==0){
      if (cases[j]!=0){
        if(prizes[i]==cases[j]){
        printf("$%d ", cases[j]);
        sentinal++;
        }
        else{
          j++;
        }
      }
      else{
      sentinal++;
      }
    }
  }


}

Whenever i "open" a case the value is set to 0 in the cases array, but the prizes array is never changed.

Smacks me in the face as wrong. What good is a prize array if it's not being kept current? You could assign prizes without using a prize array, even easier.

Use your prize array. Prize data should be found in the prize array. If the prize becomes unavailable, then set it to zero, for heaven's sake.

As for this code. You need to throw in some printf's or watch on the variables, and make sure that your indeces and array values, are what you believe they should be.

It's a very small nested loop, so step through it and see what's going on.