Need help fixing program.

[kevin guo95]

The point of the program is a guessing game. The program chooses a number between 1-100 and the user guesses. If they guess too high it says 1, too low it says -1 and correct guess a 0. Then it outputs the number of tries it took. It works, but my teacher says that i should be using a == instead of =, and also the use of else instead of else if. Im lost on how to fix it. Please help.

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <ctime>
using namespace std;

int main(){
    int number, guess, trials = 0;
    srand(time(0));
    number = rand() % 100 + 1;
    cout << "Guess the number. If correct you will get a 1, wrong a -1, and correct a 0." << endl;
    do{
        cout << "Please enter a value between 1 and 100." << endl;
        cin >> guess;
        ++trials;
    
        if (guess > number){
            cout << "1" <<endl;
        }
        else if (guess < number){
            cout << "-1" <<endl;
        }
        else if (guess = number){
            cout << "0" <<endl;
            cout << "Congrats you did it in " << trials << " tries" << endl;
        }
        
    } while (guess != number);
    
    system("pause");
}

[CLman94]

Hint

== : check to see if both left and right are equal

= : assign a value to a variable.

[kevin guo95]

thank you and what about the else if, else thing. Idk how ot change it to else

[CLman94]

It checks if 'guess' is greater than or less than 'number', and if it is neither than in must be equal to 'number'. So, a simple 'else' statement will do.