Question

blah blah blah

Answer 1

don't have everything in so far, but I'll explain the problem after I post what I have

Answer 2

it calls the `menu(menuSelection);` function properly, but not either of the others I have in

Answer 3

can you link to pastebin?

Answer 4

what's that?

Answer 5

want me to put everything I have so far?

Answer 6

wait what exactly is the problem?

Answer 7

just not sure why it isn't calling those functions corrently

Answer 8

*correctly

Answer 9

would a switch be better for this?

Answer 10

you have a local/global variable problem. try moving the menuSelection variable before your main to make it a global variable so the functions can all operate on it @sleepyjess

Answer 11

move menuSelection above int main()

Answer 12

line 12 to line 9

Answer 13

and would line 13 need to be moved up also?

Answer 14

still doesn't work either way... just keeps running that first loop

Answer 15

can you update your code with what you have real quick and i'll try to run it

Answer 16

updated

Answer 17

in your "menu" function remove the argument int menuSelection and remove it in the call inside main (lines 47, 16, and 4) and try running without arguments. You're shadowing the global (you'd need the global keyword to write to it, but you don't need that argument in the function anyways)

Answer 18

@sleepyjess

Answer 19

Yay!!! That worked!!

Answer 20

thank you so so so much, I really did not think it would take this long to find the issue

Answer 21

yeah global and local variables are always a huge frustration the first time you encounter them since the behavior is completely unexpected

Answer 22

first time really having to work with declaring functions in general, so still a bit iffy on what I'm doing there