C++ Compilation Error

[CJPowell27]

Hey guys, I've been stuck on this error code for a couple hours and I have no idea what I should change

Here is my code.  Any help is appreciated. Below is the error code I am getting

 

 

 

Thanks, CJ 

[PlutoNZL]

On line 161, what is this meant to be doing?:

int compare(guess, questionOne);

It looks like you are trying to call a function called "compare" and assign the result to an int. If this is the case it should be done as follows:

int x = compare(guess, questionOne);

But I can't see where the compare(char[][], char[]) function is defined.

 

The function strcmp takes two parameters, each of type const char* (a string). When you call strcmp you are passing a char and a bool. The error is saying that a char cannot be converted to a const char* and a bool cannot be converted to a const char*

 

In: 

strcmp(questionOne[j],guess[i] == 0) 

The first parameter is a single char and the second parameter is "guess == 0" which is a bool.

 

I believe what you are wanting to do is:
 

strcmp(questionOne, guess[i]) == 0

Which checks if questionOne equals guess , but I'm not even sure what your compare function is meant to do.

Edited February 5, 2016 by PlutoNZL

[CJPowell27]

26 minutes ago, PlutoNZL said:

EDIT: Sorry I should read better. Give me a few minutes to correct my post

 

The function strcmp takes two parameters, each of type const char* (a string). When you call strcmp you are passing a const char* and a bool. The error is saying that a bool cannot be converted to a const char*

 

In: 

strcmp(questionOne[j],guess[i] == 0) 

the second parameter is "guess == 0" which is a bool.

 

I believe what you are wanting to do is:
 

strcmp(questionOne[j], guess[i]) == 0

Which checks if questionOne[j] equals guess

Currently getting this after changing that

[PlutoNZL]

6 minutes ago, CJPowell27 said:

Currently getting this after changing that

The first argument you are passing to strcmp is a char when it should be a char*.

What are you wanting to compare? At the moment you are trying to compare a character with a string. 

 

I edited my post after you quoted it. Check out the updated code. 

[CJPowell27]

7 minutes ago, PlutoNZL said:

The first argument you are passing to strcmp is a char when it should be a char*.

What are you wanting to compare? At the moment you are trying to compare a character with a string. 

 

I edited my post after you quoted it. Check out the updated code. 

Where would I change it to char*.  Sorry if it is a nooby question, the concept of functions and stuff is very new to me

[PlutoNZL]

4 minutes ago, CJPowell27 said:

Where would I change it to char*.  Sorry if it is a nooby question, the concept of functions and stuff is very new to me

Char* is the same as char[] - an array of characters or a string. 

questionOne is an array of chars. questionOne[i ] is a single char. 

strcmp expects an array of chars such as questionOne.