i need some help about the loop construct

[tinytimes]

i need to use the loop construct to write a program for the users to guess a secret character, which is k, (between lower case letter ‘a’ and ‘z’) stored inside the program. The user is allowed to have a maximum of 3 guesses. and need to show up 3 different kind of result, the first one:The user do not get the correct character and he/she had used up the quota (i.e., 3 guesses).second one: The user finally got the secret character after 3 guesses. and the last one is :The user used less than 3 guesses and got the secret number.


please helping to know how to write this program, and understand the logic in this question. thank you

there is my code:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
char lowerChar = 'a';
char higherChar = 'z';
char secretChar = 'g';
char inputChar;
int choice = 3;
int index = 0;



while (choice--)
{
cout << "Please enter a letter between " << lowerChar << " and " << higherChar << " : ";
cin >> inputChar;
if ( inputChar < secretChar )
{
cout << "Incorrect! Please enter the letter bigger than " << inputChar << ".\n";

}
else if ( inputChar > secretChar )
{
cout << "Incorrect! Please enter the letter smaller than " << inputChar << ".\n";

}
else if ( inputChar = secretChar)
{
cout << "Congratulation! The input character equals to the secret character." << endl;

}


}

return 0;
}

But we I run it, I can't get these 3 different scenarios at the end:
1) sorry, you have used up 3 times! program terminated.
2)you have used 3 times to guess the secret letter. program terminated.
3)you have used 2 times to guess the secrt letter.


please help me develop it, thans

[xenovia12]

how have you done so far?
can we see your code?


just use random and static cast

[MiiNiPaa]

Rough draft:

char secret = /*...*/
char user_guess;
int i = 3;
while(i--) {
    user_guess = /*...*/
    if (user_guess == secret) 
        break;
}

After the loop you have 3 possibilities:
1) user_guess != secret: user did not guess character
2) user_guess == secret and i == 0: user got correct character on the last guess
3) user_guess == secret and i != 0: user gueesed the character and still has guesses to spare.

Use some ifs to determine which case so you have.