Question

I made a code that plays a guessing game w/ the user and guess the letter the user is guess in 5 tries or less but, my teacher wants it to were the user can input multiple replies like: y, Y, yes, YES. How would i do that

Answer 1

//Harjasdeep Samra
//this program guesses a users letter in 5 of less tries
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
char first, mid, last, userResponse;
bool answer, answer2=true;
first='a';
last='z';
mid=(first+last)/2;

cout<<"pick a letter and keep it in your head"<<endl;

while(answer2)
{
cout<<"is your character "<<mid<<"? type y for yes and n for no"<<endl;
cin>>userResponse;
userResponse=tolower(userResponse);
if(userResponse=='n')
{
answer=false;
}
else
answer=true;

if(answer)
answer2=false;

if(!answer)
{
cout<<"is your letter higer or lower. Put h for higher and L for lower"<<endl;
cin>>userResponse;
userResponse=tolower(userResponse);
if(userResponse=='h')
answer=false;
else
answer=true;
if(answer)//this is for lower
{
last=mid-1;
mid=(first+last)/2;
}
else//this if for higher
{
first=mid+1;
mid=(first+last)/2;
}
}
}

cout<<"your letter is: "<<mid<<endl;

return 0;
}

Answer 2

you can use such condition if(userResponse=='n' || userResponse=='no') & if((userResponse=='y' || userResponse=='yes')).

Answer 3

try this with you code:-
when you run you code:-
"pick a letter and keep it in your head
is your character m? type y for yes and n for no "

give here response other than "yes" or "no" . what will happen?
you should put one more condition to check that the responce was proper or not.
and according to that print a message ,for example, "give proper response" and ask again for response.

you got my point?

Answer 4

you can split your string and look for the character y in the user response...