I'm trying to run a for loop on the outside of my function... I can't post the code because its for my semester project which is due on Monday, and I know the code leaches are scouring. So yeah, I'm trying to decrement the char 'S' stored in an array. I basically want the function to repeat until there are less than 11 char 'S' in the array. I'm aware that this is completely wrong (though shamefully I admit to trying... chalk it up to desperation and a nothing to loose attitude), but I'm thinking somewhere along the lines of:
...the char 'S' represent sheep in game that I had to program. When there are less than 20 sheep on the board, the game is over. I wanted to run a loop outside of a function that basically says, when there are less than 11 sheep on the board, stop looping because the game is over.
You could either maintain a count (an integer) which is incremented every time you add a sheep,and decremented every time you remove a sheep.
Or - perhaps simpler, have a loop which checks every location on the board. Every time an 'S' is found, add 1 to the count. (make sure the count starts at zero).
...lol, yeah, I don't know why I didn't think of that at first. As soon as I emailed you I felt like an idiot because I thought, "why am I not just counting the damn sheep?" Probably a good sign that I need to step away for a minute, lol. Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions;)