how to make a counter?

[battleroyale]

OK......how do you make a counter for a lottery game or w/e. Like you have money and if you win you get w/e. and if you lose you lose w/e.
plz help

[Delos]

A 'counter' is a fancy name for a variable.

code:

var iAmNotACounter : int := 0 % Note the initialization before anything else is done. for i : 1..5 put i iAmNotACounter += 1 end for put iAmNotACounter

Oh, in case you're wondering, 'iAmNotACounter' is a counter.

[battleroyale]

ok...how would i use that too make a score chart...like you start off with a number..and if you win..the number goes up..but if you lose the number goes down...can you use if statements?

[[Gandalf]]

Of course (and I showed the same thing as above on your previous post ).

code:

if result := win then score += 1 elsif result := loss then score -= 1 end if

[battleroyale]

sorry gandalf for using up your time...ill stick with this thread now..
ok...for your code

code:

if result := win then score += 1 elsif result := loss then score -= 1 end if

how would i start it...cuz i dont know how to declare result (cuz im a noob ) here is the code i have written so far

code:

var number : int var number2 : int var number3 : int var numpick : int var numpick2 : int var numpick3 : int proc theend     cls     put "Thank you for playing Woodbridge lotto"     delay (2000)     put "Kevin Nguyen"     delay (2000)     quit end theend proc Q2     randint (number, 1, 50)     randint (number2, 1, 50)     randint (number3, 1, 50)       put "Your numbers are "     delay (750)     locate (5, 25)     put numpick     delay (750)     locate (5, 30)     put numpick2     delay (750)     locate (5, 35)     put numpick3         put skip     put "The lottery numbers are "     delay (750)     locate (15, 25)     put number     delay (750)     locate (15, 30)     put number2     delay (750)     locate (15, 35)     put number3     if numpick = number or numpick = number2 or numpick = number3             or numpick2 = number or numpick2 = number2 or numpick2 = number3             or numpick3 = number or numpick3 = number2 or numpick3 = number3 then         put skip         put "Goodjob, you won!"         put skip             var yorn1 : string             put "Want to try again? y or n"             get yorn1             if yorn1 = "n" then             theend             end if         else             put "try again"             put skip             var yorn : string             put "Want to try again? y or n"             get yorn             if yorn = "n" then                 theend             else end if             end if     end Q2 loop cls     put "Pick 3 numbers between 1 and 50."     get numpick, numpick2, numpick3         var yorn : string     put "Are you sure? y or n"     get yorn : *     cls     if yorn = "y" then         Q2     end if end loop

I want to add somewhere the money you start off with ($5) and if you win..you add 10 bucks and if you lose you lose a buck (or w/e) the stuff that iv tried kept resetting the start money to 5....help

ps. as you can see...i dont understand arrays so its really long and repetitive...

[[Gandalf]]

To declare you use something like this
result := "win"
after already identifying result as a string.

So, for an example:

code:

var result : string var score : int := 10 if this := that then put "you won" score += 10 %adds 10 to the current score result := win  %says that the result is now "win" elsif this := notthat then put "you lost" score -= 10 result := lost end if put score

Try adapting that to your program.

Also, to make your program more efficient and neat when declaring many similar variables use this:

code:

var num1, num2, num3 : int

Or later on, to improve this idea further research arrays, you might want to check one of the tutorials for that.

Hope this helps!

[battleroyale]

thanks..it did...all i need to do is clean it up and add some colour... THANKS again

[shlitiouse]

Hi, I noticed that you had asked about giving the user a set amount of money that they could use, I read through the advice and didn't see anyone mention anything about it. It would just be a simple question of adding

code:

var money:int:=5 if result=win then    money +=1 else    if result=loss then       money -=1    end if end if

This is basicaly what you were doing before, except you're giving the variable a set number. If you want to make the game a little more interesting, you could make different difficulty levels that would let the user start out with more or less money, depending on the difficulty selected. This can be done with a "difficulty" variable, a couple more IF statements, and a get statement at the beggining. I'll let you have fun trying out these suggestions, rather than posting how to do it. But if you get stuck feel free to ask[/code]

[[Gandalf]]

Ya, if you looked more closely you would see I did have that.

Quote:

var score : int := 10

score += 10 %etc, etc...

Anyways, if you did want to have a difficulty setting, or just allow the user to input the amount of starting money then (according to my code):

code:

get input score := input

and then just work with that, its pretty simple once you understand it...

Now I suggest you look up arrays - the earlier you learn them the less trouble you're going to have (trust me ).