hang man

[bradm4593]

this is sort of a lengthy program but essentialy my problem is i can not get the program to build or run. it comes up with no errors and just says build:0sucessful, 1 failed in the debug window any one know what would cause this?

/*----------------------------------------------------------*/
/*	Program Hangman.cpp									
/*----------------------------------------------------------*/

#include <iostream>		// Required for cin, cout endl
#include <fstream>		// required for ifstream
#include <string>		// required for string functions
#include <cctype>		// required for toupper
#include <time.h>		// required for srand
#include <cstring>		// required for strcpy
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <ctime>

using namespace std;

string THE_WORD; // word to guess
const int MAX_WRONG = 7; // maximum number of incorrect guesses allowed

bool match(char letter, string &word);
void askGuess(string& usedLettersStr, string &soFar, int &correct, int &incorrect);
bool playAgain();
void DrawGallows (int wrong);
string goal(string file_name);


int main()
    {
	// declare variables
	int wrng(0), cor(0);
	string soFar, used, filename, word;
	vector<string>words;
	
    cout << "Welcome to Hangman! \n";
    bool done = false;

	cout << "\nFilename you want to play, hangman1.txt, hangman2.txt: ";
	cin >> filename;
	
	// call function to retrive word from file
	word = goal(filename);
	words.push_back(word);
	
    do
    {
		THE_WORD = words[0]; // word to guess
		soFar = string(THE_WORD.size(), '-'); // word guessed so far
		used = ""; // letters already guessed

		cout << THE_WORD <<"\n" << soFar << "\n";// added for debug

		// loop for current word
		while ((wrng < MAX_WRONG) && (soFar != THE_WORD))
		{
			DrawGallows (wrng);
			cout << "\n\nYou have " << (MAX_WRONG - wrng) << " incorrect guesses left." << wrng << "\n";
			cout << "\nYou've picked the following letters:\n" << used << endl;
			cout << "\nSo far, the word is:\n" << soFar << endl;
			askGuess(used, soFar, cor, wrng);
			// end of while ((wrong < MAX_WRONG) && (soFar != THE_WORD)) shut down
		}

		if (wrng == 7)
			DrawGallows(wrng);
		cout << "\nThe word was " << THE_WORD << endl;
    } while (playAgain());
    return 0;
}

/*----------------------------------------------------------*/
/*	function askGuess										*/
/*----------------------------------------------------------*/
void askGuess(string& usedLettersStr, string &soFar, int &correct, int &incorrect)
{
	// declare local variables
	bool cor;
	char guess;
	
	cout << "\n\nEnter your guess : ";
    cin >> guess;
    guess = toupper(guess); //make uppercase since secret word in uppercase
	usedLettersStr = usedLettersStr + guess;

		cor = match(guess, soFar);

		if (cor == 1)
			correct++;
		else
			incorrect++;	
}
/*----------------------------------------------------------*/

/*----------------------------------------------------------*/
/*	function match											*/
/*----------------------------------------------------------*/
bool match(char letter, string &word)
{
	// declare local variables
	string soFar;
	int i(0), j(0), pos, num;
	cout<< THE_WORD <<"\n";//touble shooting find if the letter entered is in the word

    if (THE_WORD.find(letter) <= THE_WORD.length())
	{
		num = 0;
		while (num < THE_WORD.length())
		{
			if (THE_WORD[num] == letter)
				word[num] = letter;
			num++;
		}
			cout << "That's right! " << letter << " is in the word.\n";
			return 1;		
	}
	else
	{
		cout << "Sorry, " << letter << " isn't in the word.\n";
		return 0;
	}
}
    
	
/*----------------------------------------------------------*/
/*	function playAgain										*/
/*----------------------------------------------------------*/
    bool playAgain()
    {
		char again;
		cout << "\n\nWould you like to play again? <y/n>: ";
		cin >> again;
		cin.clear(); //clear and ignore cin
		cin.ignore();
		again = toupper(again);
		system("cls");
		return (again == 'Y');
    }
/*----------------------------------------------------------*/

/*----------------------------------------------------------*/
/*	function DrawGallows									*/
/*----------------------------------------------------------*/
void DrawGallows (int wrong)
{
switch (wrong)
	{
	case 0:
		cout << "    Hangman" << endl << endl
		<< " *------*" << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<<  " *---------" << endl;
		break;

	case 1:
		cout << " *------*" << endl
		<< " |      0" << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<<  " *---------" << endl;
		break;

	case 2:
		cout << " *------*" << endl
		<< " |      0" << endl
		<< " |      | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<<  " *---------" << endl;
		break;

	case 3:
		cout << " *------*" << endl
		<< " |      0" << endl
		<< " |      | " << endl
		<< " |      | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<<  " *---------" << endl;
		break;

	case 4:
		cout << " *------*" << endl
		<< " |      0" << endl
		<< " |     \\| " << endl
		<< " |      | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<<  " *---------" << endl;
		break;

	case 5:
		cout << " *------*" << endl
		<< " |      0" << endl
		<< " |     \\|/ " << endl
		<< " |      | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<<  " *---------" << endl;
		break;

	case 6:
		cout << " *------*" << endl
		<< " |      0" << endl
		<< " |     \\|/ " << endl
		<< " |      | " << endl
		<< " |     / " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<<  " *---------" << endl;
		break;

	case 7:
		cout << " *------*" << endl
		<< " |      0" << endl
		<< " |     \\|/ " << endl
		<< " |      | " << endl
		<< " |     / \\ " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<< " | " << endl
		<<  " *---------" << endl;
		 break;
	}
}

/*----------------------------------------------------------*/


/*----------------------------------------------------------*/
/*	function goal											*/
/*	read words from file and pick one for game				*/
/*----------------------------------------------------------*/
string goal(string file_name)
{
	//declare local variable
	int cnt(0), index(0);
	string temp;
	ifstream input;

	input.open(file_name.c_str());
	// if file fails to open ouput error message
	if (input.fail()) 
	{
		cerr << "Error opening the requsested file!\n";
		exit (-1);
	}

	// random seed and random genrator
	srand(time(0));
	index = rand() % 10 + 1;

	while (cnt < index)
	{
		getline (input, temp);
		cnt++;		
	}

	// close file
	input.close();

	return temp;	
}   
/*----------------------------------------------------------*/

[leyacin]

I don't know if something changed, but your program compiled for me and ran.

[bradm4593]

ok i realized my first problmen when i created the source file i didnt hit cpp so it was somthing else but now that thats done the problem is after your done guessing and you choose to play again the same word is chosen from the text file and the number of wrong guess's does not reset

my idea is to go into the play again function and write something that sets number of wrong guess's back to 0 and im not sure about choosing the next word in the text file.

[bradm4593]

ive been playing around with the code and im having trouble figuring out a way to reset the incorrect guesses im thinking maybe a loop of some kind but nothing has worked yet

[admkrk]

It is always picking the same word because
THE_WORD = words[0]; // word to guess
I would use a random number for the index, something like this

index = rand()
THE_WORD = words[index];

And yes, you need to reset the wrong guess count along with any other counting variables.