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[Willfor]

It's the temperature map for this:

Spoiler: EQUALLY LARGE IMAGE (click to show/hide)

Unfortunately, so far it's only a temperature map in theory. I kind of have to start applying it to the other features now...

[Sirus]

So today I had some free time at school, decided to start laying the groundwork for a dungeon crawler...
and it turns out that C doesn't have a String variable. WHAT.

According to the textbook (some 300-400 pages ahead of what we're currently working on), the way you work around it is with a modified char variable that stores the fake!String as a bunch of separate characters. Needless to say, I am not getting it to work properly yet.

Anyway, a more pertinent question: how do you tell the program to return to a different line or section of code? See, I only want players to use letters for their name (figuring out how to make this work led to the aforementioned discovery), but I don't want to simply shut down the program if the name is invalid. I assume it's some variation of "goto", but the exact syntax eludes me.

[nenjin]

I think you're looking for break?

[MaximumZero]

So today I had some free time at school, decided to start laying the groundwork for a dungeon crawler...
and it turns out that C doesn't have a String variable. WHAT.

According to the textbook (some 300-400 pages ahead of what we're currently working on), the way you work around it is with a modified char variable that stores the fake!String as a bunch of separate characters. Needless to say, I am not getting it to work properly yet.

Anyway, a more pertinent question: how do you tell the program to return to a different line or section of code? See, I only want players to use letters for their name (figuring out how to make this work led to the aforementioned discovery), but I don't want to simply shut down the program if the name is invalid. I assume it's some variation of "goto", but the exact syntax eludes me.

...what does that groundwork even look like? I'm not even sure where to start. :/

[Sirus]

I think you're looking for break?

That might work. I'd have to fiddle with it first, the only time we've used break so far is for switches.

New question though:

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for(;;)Are double semi-colons just a shorthand for "code goes here", or is it an argument of some sort?

@ MZ: Very, VERY early groundwork. Currently a bunch of mostly empty functions, calling each other to make sure various switches and if-statements work. It does have a nice-looking title picture though

[nenjin]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d3e6x17s%28v=vs.80%29.aspx

Those are arguments which govern the functioning of the (loop) "For" statement. So that's shorthand for what you'd put in there for how you want your loop to run.

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for ( x  =  0, x  <  z,  x++)

[Sirus]

Thanks for the link. I can already tell that some of this stuff is gonna come in handy.

[nenjin]

Oh, I guess:

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for (;;)
Has actual meaning, in that it will cause the loop to run infinitely unless you put in return, break or goto somewhere. So don't do that. Unless you should.

[Valid_Dark]

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for ( x  =  0 ; x  <  z ;  x++)

fixed that for you

[nenjin]

<---- Still hasn't programmed for crap, treat everything as psuedo code

[Sirus]

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for ( x  =  0 ; x  <  z ;  x++)

If I'm reading that right, it starts x at 0, checks to see if x is less than z. If it's true, it adds 1 to x and reruns the loop. If false, it breaks the loop and moves on. Do I have the general concept?

[nenjin]

Yalp. I think your order of operations is right, although it may run the loop before it increments, I can't remember exactly where it does it.

[Max White]

It checks first, runs the block of code, then increments. So the first iteration of the loop would be with x = 0.

[Sirus]

So if z had a value of say, 5, the loop would run 5 times before breaking off on the sixth run.

[nenjin]

Nm, if it's less than 5 that's 5 runs.