and the questions keep coming

sorry about all of these questions lately, but ive been working hard on this game, and because its so complex, im running into endless streams of problems...

first of all, i have a while loop that wont break.

while ( ( value1 > 0 ) || ( value2 > 0 ) )

no matter how low either value gets, the loop keeps running...

and i have string problems too....

i have a little thing that goes something like this:

char string[10] = "hi";
printf("%s", string);

and it gives an output of a bunch of weird characters (like smiley faces, hearts, etc...)

Don't know about the printf, but your first problem might be from your condition. As long as either value1 or value2 is greater than 0, the condition is true. Try manually setting both to 0 and see what happens.

well, the problem im having is that these values get way into the negatives, and it still continues the loop.

unless they changed something since i last checked, a negative number is less than 0.


*slaps forhead*

i just realized..... because i have an 'or' operator in there, the value that is positive keeps the loop going.

*looks at signature*

well, at least the second problem is still getting on my nerves.

*edited*

changed my mind..... the loop problem was a computer error, not a coding error.

still cant get strings working though... not correctly, anyway.

char string[3] = "hi";
printf("%s", string);

Works for me.

For the While Problem (if you change || to &&) you will have to set the values to 0 to break the loop. The loop will break if values are int at the MAXINT which is 32767. The next number is-32768 (#include<limits.h>).

About the printf, this works fine, if not try cout << string;