Need a lot of help making a game!

[gnauhZ]

Hey this is someone in the same group just using the same account.

I thought why not post and see if you guys can help me as well. My problem is similar to my partners but slightly easier.

Basically all i am doing is presenting options and asking the user to pick one using an array to make the choice variable *choice(1), choice(2), etc.* and I want to know if there is a more efficient way to decide what comes next besides 1000000000 if statements.

If you could give me a simple easy to understand asnswer i would forever be in your debt. Thank you, gnauhZ #2

[Tony]

you could use integer variables in place of array index

code:

for i: 1..10    if ( choice(i) ) then       ...

[gnauhZ]

I appreciate the post but that's a little vague. Just like my partner this is my first year ever programming and I am still very new at turing.

How exactly would I use integer variables?

[Tony]

We have various tutorials available in the Turing Tutorials forum; most common ones are linked to from The Turing Walkthrough

[HRI]

Actually I would just make a function that takes an array of choices and returns the option chosen.

Turing:

var toolChoices : array 1..4 of string := init ("Crowbar", "Wrench", "Screwdriver", "Lockpick") var weaponChoices : array 1..3 of string := init ("Gun", "Lead Pipe", "Candlestick") var weapon, tool : int fcn choose (choices : array 1..* of string) : int     var ch : string (1) := ""     put "Here are your options: "     for i:1..upper (choices)         put i, ": ", choices (i)     end for     put "Which do you choose? "..     loop         getch (ch)                 if ord(ch) >= ord('1') and ord(ch) <= ord (intstr (upper (choices)))         then             result strint (ch)         end if     end loop end choose tool := choose (toolChoices) weapon := choose (weaponChoices) %just make an array for each choice they make

Also, let me know if that doesn't compile, I wrote it up on the spot and Turing is a real bother to use on this computer.

[gnauhZ]

question: is it possible to program an if statement where a variable does not equal a number
example:

if letter not= "a number"

[Raknarg]

So checking to see if its a number or not? I've never used it, but you should look up strintok then.

[gnauhZ]

Hey I just have a quick question.
My project is due tomorrow and its 11 30 where a live so a swift reply would be very much appreciated XD.

So basically I have a bunch of if statements and a bunch of procedures.

I try to run my procedures by saying "if blank = blank then
"procedure name here"

some of them work but some stop the program and give me this message saying:

"Substring index is greater than length of string"

Any ideas on how to fix this?
Also I can post my program is this doesn't make any sense just reply quickly pleaseeeeeeeee.

[Tony]

That means that you are trying to access a part of the string (a substring) that does not exist. E.g:

What is the 10th letter in the word "turing"?

When the program stops, it should highlight the offending line.

[gnauhZ]

That confuses me though because I programmed the entire thing the same but only these last two options don't work and yet the rest of the program works... all programmed the same.

sigh. If your willing to look i'd appreciate it but if not no worries. Just post a reply if your willing to help me out cuz i'm stumped.

[Tony]

A good way to debug this would be to print out both the string and the index values that will be accessed, right before the line where the crash occurs. Once you know the word and the number, you could step backwards through your program to try to figure out what (and why it) happened.

[gnauhZ]

Ok i'll gve it a try thanks