ingnoring the IF statement but I want the if statement to work

[avakann]

help please
What is the problem you are having?
the progeramme doesn't do what I want it to do


Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
I've changed the variable, I even copied a part of the programme that worked the way I want it to work and even that didn't help

Turing:

setscreen ("graphics:1050;650") colorback (6) % yellow cls  var picID :int := Pic.FileNew ("X.bmp") var picy :int := Pic.FileNew ("Y.bmp") var name1,name, age,twentyfirst, theoryX, theoryY : string var relate1, colour1,independent1 : char     put "what is your name?" %asks the first question   get name1 put "what is my name?"     get name         if name = "Jason" or name = "jason" then         put "right, next question."         else         put "wrong the answer is Jason or jason ", name1         end if     put "what is my age?"     get age         if age = "18" then         put "right next question"         else put "wrong I am 18 ", name1         end if     put "what was my score for 21st century manager?"     get twentyfirst         if twentyfirst= "7" then             put "right, next question"             else put "wrong my score was 7 ", name1         end if     put "this relates to me, how?"     put "A: it is just a score, B: my name is jason, C: my biggest problem is my self confidence, D: the evil my heart tells me so"     get relate1         if relate1 = "C" or relate1 = "c" then             put "right"         elsif relate1 = "A" or relate1 = "a" or relate1 = "B" or relate1 = "b" or relate1 = "D" or relate1 = "d" then             put "wrong it was C, or c ", name1         else put "not even an answer"         end if     put "what was my score in theory X in theory X and Y quiz?"     get theoryX         if theoryX = "5" then         put "right"         else put "WRONG IT WAS 5 ", name1         end if     put "what was my score in theory Y in theory X and Y quiz?"     get theoryY         if theoryY = "6" then         put "right"         else put "that is wrong it was 6 ", name1         end if     Pic.Draw (picID, maxx div 2, maxy div 2,0)     Pic.Free (picID)     Pic.Draw (picy, maxx div 2 + 17, maxy div 2,0)     put "what is the colour in the background for?"     put "A: I found the colour looks cool, B: it is the closest to gold, and gold was the colour that was the closest to me, c:it was just the closest to gold, D:answer not available"     get colour1     if colour1 = "b" or colour1 = "B" then             put "right"         elsif colour1 = "A" or colour1 = "a" or colour1 = "C" or colour1 ="c" or colour1 = "D" or colour1 = "d" then             put "wrong the answer was either B or b", name1         else put "not even an answer"     end if     put "I am an independent,sensing,thinking,judging person, this is expressed by the fact in this project How?"     put "A: the fact that this project is an original idea that gets people thinking B: I judged that this would be fun, and I was right, C: it was a long haul but my thinking got through it all, D: if you want the final answer put down d)"     get independent1       if independent1= "D" or independent1= "d" then             put "Curiosity killed the cat"             delay (200)             put "WRONG ANSWER ", name1         elsif independent1= "A" or independent1= "a" or independent1= "B" or independent1= "b" or independent1= "C" or independent1= "c" then             put "that is correct ", name1         else put "not even an answer"     end if

Please specify what version of Turing you are using
the version is 4.0.5

[Tony]

avakann @ Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:23 pm wrote:

the progeramme doesn't do what I want it to do

It doesn't have to. It does do exactly what you've told it to do though. Sometimes there's discrepancy though. What is it that you want it to do? And how is that different from what you've told it to do?

[avakann]

Ok it doesn't do what I thought that I told it to do
for some reason it is ignoring the if statement and and I don't think that I told the programme to do that

[jbking]

There are 8 "if" statements in the code. Which one(s) are you meaning? What kinds of things have you done to try to isolate the problem? What is the expected and actual results you get and with what input?

These are just a few basic questions that would help some of us as well as show good faith that you do try to figure out your own problems as this is one of the big pillars of programming to my mind: Being able to fix mistakes in your own software.

[Wolf_Destiny]

So....it worked perfectly for me, (in)correct answers were dealt with appropriately, indicating success or failure, or invalid input where appropriate. Not really sure what the problem is at all, it didn't skip a single if statement when I ran it. Just for whatever sort of reference it might be worth, I'm running V4.0.3
~Wolf_Destiny

[avakann]

it is ignoring the "if" statement for this line

if independent1= "D" or independent1= "d" then
put "Curiosity killed the cat"
delay (200)
put "WRONG ANSWER ", name1
elsif independent1= "A" or independent1= "a" or independent1= "B" or independent1= "b" or independent1= "C" or independent1= "c" then
put "that is correct ", name1
else put "not even an answer"
end if
what am I doing wrong

[Tony]

a good debugging technique is to output all the conditional variables, to inspect yourself. It will look something like

code:

put "Debug: ", independent1 if independent1= "D" or independent1= "d" then ...

If it seems visually correct, you can further try testing for conditional statements

code:

put independent1= "D"