Thread: I'm not sure where I went wrong with this - pls help

Hello,

I'm writing a simple program that will book seats on a flight but I've been struggling with this section of code for a few days now and decided to seek some help. whe I run this section, I get both pieces of output "That seat has already bee booked" and "Seat %d has been booked". I'm trying to prevent double booking a seat and while the program will not double book the seat, I still get these conflicting messages. Can anyone give me some suggestions to clear this up? I've posted the section of code below.

Thanks,
Vireyda

Code:

//begin function FirstClass
void FirstClass(int L[])
{
	int seat, booked=0;

	do
	{
	printf("Please enter the seat number to be booked => ");
	fflush(stdin);
	scanf("%d", &seat);
	if(seat>5&&seat<1)
		printf("\nThat is an invalid seat number. Please enter a seat number from 1 to 5.\n");
		
	if(L[seat-1]=1);
		{
		printf("\nThat seat has already been booked.\n");
		booked=1;
		}
		
	}while(seat>5&&seat<1);

	while(seat>=1&&seat<=5&&booked==0);
	{
	L[seat-1]=1;
	printf("Seat %d has been booked.\n", seat);
	}
}//end FirstClass

try changing assignment operator to the equal operator in the following line:

if(L[seat-1]=1);

I think Salem means that a semicolon immediately after the conditional of an if, while, or for statement will cause the body of the loop following the conditional to be ignored. For example the semicolon below means that do something will never get done.

if(foo);
{
//do something;
}

Same here:

while(foo);
{
//do something;
}

However, in do...while loops, the conditional comes after the body of the loop, so the semicolon is needed

do
{
//do something
}while(foo);

Thanks for your help. I got everything working but I was a little confused when "foo" was inserted between brackets. What does this mean?

Sorry, foo is just a generic term that can stand in for any legal statement in the setting it is used. bar is another common generic term. As I understand it egend has it that foobar used to be a slang phrase that meant something like "who cares?" or "whatever" and it has found roots in programming as a generic fill in.