hangman game with serious problems!!

[Unregistered]

i have got my code working but it just runs a continuous loop of inputting characters...how do i get it to accept the letts either as being in the word and assign them to right place or as a incorrect guess??
please help no strings!!

#include <stdio.h>

#define letters 5

int search(const char word[], int letternum, char letter);

int main(void)
{
char word[letters] = {'m','o', 'u', 's', 'e'};
char letter;
int location;
int tries= 0;
{
printf("choose a letter: ");
while(tries<6)
scanf("%c", &letter);
}
location= search(word, letters, letter);
{
if (location >-1)
printf("%c was found\n input another letter" , letter);
else
printf("input another character:");
}
++tries;
return 0;
}

int search(const char list[], int letternum, char letter)
{
int i= 0, found;

found = 0;

while ( i<letternum && !found)

{ if (list[i] ==letter)
found= 1;
else i++;
}
if (found) return i ;
else return -1;
}

[Salem]

It's because all of your {} are out of place

The code reduces to just these two lines
while(tries<6)
scanf("%c", &letter);

Since you don't modify tries in this loop, this is all this loop will ever do

[Unregistered]

hmm so how would i go about fixing this..sorry but im a newbie to this !!

[Salem]

Short answer is start again - big bang programming is rarely effective.

Build the program in small steps - like before you charge off and see if a char is in an array, get the basic char input routine working.

Until it works, you're not going anywhere, so there's no point writing more code. It's a lot easier to debug a small bit of code than a large bit.

Then put that to one side, and try this program

int main ( ) {
   char word[letters] = {'m','o', 'u', 's', 'e'}; 
   int location; 
   location = search ( word, letters, 'a' );
   printf( "Location is %d\n", location );
   location = search ( word, letters, 'e' );
   printf( "Location is %d\n", location );
   location = search ( word, letters, 'm' );
   printf( "Location is %d\n", location );
   return 0;
}

Again, more testing of the code in small bits - you can focus on the search, without worrying about input.

When you've got enough component ideas working, then you can start to bring them together.