Thread: This should be an easy question...

I think what I am looking for, I have already heard about and figured out how to use it (basically). But I have looked for a while and cannot find what it was! I have a problem with this, learning something and then not being able to remember the names. Anyway, I am thinking along the lines of a game. There can be multiple players, and each player has certain variables, which are all integers. Let's say I wanted it to give each player 3 variables. The variables could be, for example: health, strength, speed, and defense. How could I do this, so that each player had their own variables, without putting them out long in an int list?

you could use a struct.

quick example:

Code:

struct player {
  int health;
  int strength;
  int speed;
};

i think that's a way to do what your looking for.

and in main, just declare how many players you want, i.e.

Code:

player player1, player2;

//to access each player's characteristic

player1.health = 2;  //for example
player2.speed = 3;

hope this helps some.

declare it as you would any other variable in main. the parameter list for main is reserved for special parameters.

i.e.

Code:

int main() {
  player player1, player2;

 // etc. etc.
}

granted the struct is declared within scope for the program (essentially, and I'm sure you probably know this, that the struct is above main)

edit: No, you're not stupid.

You don't want to do that.

You just want to do something like this :

Code:

struct player
{
  health;
  strength;
  magic;
};

int main()
{
  player player1, player2, player3
  player1.health = 40
  player1.strength = 30
  player2.health = 40
  etc.;
}

Edit : And again, I'm beaten to the punch line.

To the original poster, what are you using to learn C++? I would've thought you'd learned how to use structures if you're making a game.

I have been learning from this site, but I have not been doing very much tutorial work lately. Instead, I constantly experiment with stuff I find in the boards here. Once I have covered the main parts of the item I wanted to learn, I am happy so I go to learn something different. After I learned what int, char, cout, and simple things like that were, I learned myself by experimenting with commands, refering to the site for help. Thanks for the help, but I have yet another question. Call me stupid, but I have recently realized that the cout command is simply c out(put). To get input, the c in(put) command is used (at a basic level). What is the c for? why not just in / out?

and as for edit, I am not stupid, I am ignorant of the topic

Originally Posted by Razorblade Kiss

What is the c for? why not just in / out?

The c stands for console, since the programs its used in are console based.

makes sense...now for more help
I try to do this and I get 76 errors in my program!!It works fine until I try to implement this stuff, so could someone offer completely working syntax proof copy and paste and it will work code? (P.S. I warned you I was stupid )

Well, if you're having problems with stuff you implement, just post the code here, and we'll be glad to help!

wow....this is going to sound really really stupid, but my code is really jumbled. So instead of posting 10 million lines of code(actually morelike 95) I started to make a new program with just the basic problem I was having. Using the breif and sweet(also simple)code, I figured out all of the errors. Mostly semicolons, I figured it out after I thought about it. You guys have been a great help.

Why use structures one of the advantages C++ has over C is you can use Functions in Classes.

I don't understand how you can have that many errors. Don't you check for errors as you go along?

Well, I had an error with the syntax of the struct, so it carried it as a syntax error for every >>, <<, etc. Since I used a lot of these, I had plenty of errors. Once I cleared up the starting error, it all went smooth.