Thread: Rock Paper Scissors Program Help

Hey all,
I just typed up a program for rock paper scissors that I need to turn in and print to a .txt file. Unfortunately when I ran it, I'm receiving 30+ errors that really are either "undeclared identifiers", "illegal operands", or "syntax errors". Also, I'm having trouble converting a character into an integer to return to my main function so that I can run my if-statement.... If you can give any help, I'd be much obliged.


Note: I'm not that lingo-savvy or computer programming literate so please, go easy :-(

If you want specific help, you should post the program's source code (in [code][/code] bbcode tags). Otherwise, you have two general options: fix the errors one by one; or redo from scratch, but compile the program as you write it part by part, and thereby be able to fix the errors as you write them.

Originally Posted by Sep1256

I'm having trouble converting a character into an integer

I am not entirely sure what you want here, but my guess is that you just need to subtract '0'.

This statement has a syntax error:

Code:

charactermove=char;

what were you trying to do by writing it?

This statement is incomplete:

Code:

scanf("%c");

You should provide a second argument with the address of the char to read in. Actually, it may be simpler to just use getchar().

Originally Posted by Sep1256

So, I created a variable to see if it'll return that [charactermove] instead.

Ah, so the syntax really should be:

Code:

char charactermove;

Originally Posted by Sep1256

I just want the character the user enters to return as the assigned integer so that I can use my if statement to compare....

Why not compare characters instead?

You still need to pass the address of a variable to scanf() to store the character in. Here's an example of how scanf() should be used:

Code:

char ch;
scanf("%c", &ch);
if(ch == 'w' || ch == 'W') // Alternatively - if(toupper(ch) == 'W') or if(tolower(ch) == 'w'), but definitely not if(ch == 'w' || 'W')
  puts("You're a winner!");