Making a Game

[dymd3z]

I have to make a game for an assignment but I'm stuck on changing a characters weapon. I'm trying to get it to work by pressing a number between 1 and 5 using a case structure to switch the characters equipped item whenever a number between 1 and 5 is chosen. I know I need a string variable to store the names of the items but i just cant get it to work xD

[Drakain Zeil]

Based on what you've said, you should probably think about re-structureing your code.

You could store the strings in an array, for example

itemName(1)="knife"
itemName(2)="sword"
itemName(3)="gun"
etc...

Then have the character use weapon number _whatever_. You can easily do all this using structures, and have:
item(1).name = "gun"
item(1).damage=4000
item(1).blah=blah blah

And the character could have things like:
player.name="Jim the hobo"
player.weapon=1

and so on

here are plenty of tutorials on-site for structures

[ericfourfour]

Look up Zylum's bitwise operators tutorial. It contains one approach to this situation.

[CodeMonkey2000]

Or just use enumerated types. It's easier. If you aren't sure what that is, it's somewhere in the Turing Walkthrough.