Problem with if statement

I am running an if-else statement to output an error when a word can't be found in a dictionary file. The program reads word 1 from the user text file and then loops through a dictionary file to find the word. The problem is that for every word in the dictionary that doesn't match, it outputs the error. How do I make it output the error after it has scanned the whole dictionary??

Code:

    
while(fscanf(fp2,"%s", wordcheck)!=EOF)//Reads word from text file into array//    {
    
        for (i=0; wordcheck[i]; i++)
        {
            wordcheck[i] = tolower(wordcheck[i]);//makes all characters lower case//
        }
        fseek(fp1,0,SEEK_SET);


        printf("%s", wordcheck);//debugger
        
        while(fscanf(fp1,"%s", worddict))
        {    


            if(strcmp(wordcheck, worddict)==0)//compare strings//
            {
            printf("This word: %s is in the dictionary\n", wordcheck);//debugger//
            break;
            }
            
            else
            {
            printf("This word %s is not in the dictionary", wordcheck);
            }
        }    


    }

Get rid of the "This word %s is not in the dictionary" statement.
Set a variable notfound = 1 at the top. Within the if (strcmp... set notfound = 0 (when you know the word was found). At the bottom, outside of the loop, you could have gotten there either by breaking out or you ran out of file. The variable notfound will tell you if the word was never matched.

Thanks for that but I'm not sure what you mean?

I placed the notfound=1 as a variable at the top and set it to equal 0 if the word was found but I need the program to output wrong words to the user.

How do I do that?

I do not understand why there is a "break" in the if/else blocks.

It also seems like the code is reading from a file into an array while also reporting on the word. Have you tried breaking these two processes into two separate functions? Or, doing them separately somehow else?

Originally Posted by agxphoto

I do not understand why there is a "break" in the if/else blocks.

Think of the effect of break on the enclosing while loop.