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    <p>Newbie to C language and I'm trying to make a hangman game. I have the following code:</p> <pre><code>int main(void) { char userResponse;//This is the response from the user on rather they want to continue or not. do { startGame(); printf("Do you want to continue (y or n): "); scanf("%c", &amp;userResponse); } while(userResponse == 'y'); return 0; } int startGame(void) { int num_letters = 0; //length of word array int count = 0; int tries = 0; //total tries player has used int correctGuesses = 0; //number of correct guesses int correctLetter = 0; //flag to check if the letter guessed was correct. int repeatLetter = 0; //flag to check if the letter guessed was already guessed before. int randomWord = 1+(rand()%6); //setting a variable that will pick a word from the word array at random. char word[] = {"spot", "physicist", "penny", "klingon", "bazinga", "continuum"}; // should these be all lower char or does it matter? char guess; char incorrectGuesses[5] = " "; // all the incorrect letters chosen by the player will be stored in this array. char gameWord[num_letters]; //starts to fill out the word as the player guesses correctly srand(time(NULL)); // Don't really understand this line but the interweb said I needed it. Can you tell me why? num_letters = strlen(word); gameWord[num_letters] = '\0'; //This will show the player what letter they have typed incorrectly. for(count = 0; count &lt; num_letters; count++) gameWord[count] = '-'; // This will display the length of the word represented with a "-". printf("Welcome to Big Bang Hangman!\n\n"); printf("Time to guess the word!"); draw_hangman(tries); while(tries &lt; NUM_TRIES_ALLOWED) { //Player only gets 7 guesses. Found this on the interweb. printf("Here is your word: %s\n", gameWord); printf("Incorrect Letters: %s\n", incorrectGuesses); printf("\nGuess a letter (and press 'Enter'): "); fgets(&amp;guess, sizeof(guess), stdin); //This compares the current guess with the previous guesses so that you won't affect a turn if you pick the same incorrect letter. for(count = 0; count &lt; num_letters; count++) if(guess == gameWord[count] || guess == incorrectGuesses[count]) { // If the player guess is equal to the size of the word or if its equal to the repeatLetter = 1; correctLetter = 1; break; } if(repeatLetter == 0) // setting the flag back to 0 tells the compiler the game is over. //Checks for matches in string for(count = 0; count &lt; num_letters; count++) { if(guess == word[count]) { // can't understand why I'm getting this warrning. gameWord[count] = guess; correctGuesses++; //if (correctGuesses == count) { //printf("\n\nCONGRATULATIONS! You guessed the word %s!", gameWord); //exit(0); //} if(correctGuesses == num_letters) { printf("\n\nCONGRATULATIONS! You guessed the word %s!", gameWord); exit(0); } correctLetter = 1; } } if(correctLetter == 0) { incorrectGuesses[tries] = guess; tries++; } // reset both flags repeatLetter = 0; correctLetter = 0; //startGame(); // Start the game over when the flag is reset. } printf("Sorry but you did not guess the word.\n"); printf("The word is: %s\n\n", gameWord); return 0; } </code></pre> <p>It is outputting the following:</p> <p>Welcome to Big Bang Hangman!</p> <p>Time to guess the word!</p> <pre><code> ___ | | | | | --- </code></pre> <pre> Here is your word: ---- Incorrect Letters: Guess a letter (and press 'Enter'): Here is your word: ---- Incorrect Letters: </pre> <p>The last two lines continue on forever until I stop it. I'm completely lost.<br> Any advice would be great. </p>
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    1. CO`char guess;` - `fgets(&guess, sizeof(guess), stdin);` <- `fgets(buffer, size, stream)` stores at most `size - 1` bytes from the stream into `buffer` and adds a 0 byte to terminate the string. With `sizeof(guess) == 1`, how many bytes from the input does `fgets` read?
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    2. COWithout `srand(time(NULL));` you should get same random sequence on each program start
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