hangman.c help

hi,

i helped write a program for my friend who's taking intro to c. it's been a while since i took the class.

the program right now works fine except for one tiny situation which we're stuck on.

in the program or "game," if the player makes 6 wrong guesses, then the game ends (takes the player to the menu). the problem i have is that i want to put a counter and increment it if 6 wrong guesses are made. and if the counter hits 6, then take the player to the menu. which, for the most part, i know how to do.

the main problem i have is that i don't know where to put that counter. i tried placing it everywhere and i've been working on it all day yesterday and i'm at my desperation point.

thanks,
barneygumble742

1# include conio.h
2# Avoid using goto! change "goto endprogram;" to "return 0;"
3# Change the start lable to a while(1) cicle and at the end change "if(newga == 1) goto start;" to "if(newga != 1) break;" (leave the cicle).
4# You code to read the word from the 1st user would crash if he inserts more than 15 chars. Use fgets(guessed,sizeof(guessed),stdin);
But if you don't want the 2nd user to see the word leave the cicle how it is, add a check to verify is the's enough space in the buffer, and end when '@' is read.
4# Add you error increment here :

Code:

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//your code
for(a = 0; a<= getguess; a++){
    if (guess == guessed[a]){
        progress [a] = guess;
    }
}
//declare at the beginnig a new var
int main(){
    int is_char_guessed;
    /*...*/

//add a check at the end of the cicle
is_char_geuessed = 0;
for(a = 0; a<= getguess; a++){
    if (guess == guessed[a]){
        progress [a] = guess;
        is_char_guessed = 1;
    }
}
if(!is_char_guessed)
    text++;

---

Your code has a big problem. If user 1 inserts more than 15 chars, user2 never wins.

i'm not too worried about words with more than 15 characters.

that's his problem. i just want the incorrect tries to be counted.

also the only libraries i can use are ctype.h and stdio.h.

thanks for your help.

if you can't use conio.h the getch() symbol wont be defined... some compiler give errors.. other only warnings