Question

I’m currently working on a program that asks a user to enter a secret word. The user’s input is then compared with a list of words which are on a text file. The user has 3 chances to enter the word. If correct, the program restarts the loop. This continues until all the words have been guessed correctly. If a word is incorrectly guessed 3 times, the program should terminate. My problem is with the 3 guesses loop. I can get it to work if it is not nested in the while loop however with the while loop it’s continues to ask for the incorrect word. What am I missing? Here is my code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(void)
{
   //Step 1: open file and declare variables//
   FILE *fp;
   fp = fopen("secretwords.txt","r");
   char guess[20];
   char secret[20];
   int i;

   //Step 2: Check that file opened correctly, terminate if not//
   if (fp == NULL) 
   {
      printf("Error reading file\n");
      exit (0);
      fclose(fp);
   }
   //Step 3: Create loop to run for each word to run to end of file//

   while(fscanf(fp,"%s", secret)!=EOF)
   {         
      for (i=0; i < 3; i++)
      {
         printf("Please guess the word: \n");
         scanf("%s", guess);

         if (strcmp(secret,guess)==0)
         {
            printf("Your guess was correct\n");
            break;
         }

         else
         {
           printf("Your guess was incorrect. Please try again\n");
         }
      }   
   }
   return 0;
}

Answer 1

You did not do break in the following part:

else
{
    if(i == 2)
        break;
    printf("Your guess was incorrect. Please try again\n");
}