Help, how to check lotto ticket's numbers ?

[sofi45611]

Can some one tell me what's wrong with my code? I am generating tickets and would like to compare each ticket number to the wining numbers and then display the results of how many wins ( 1 number matching, two matching etc) but my code doesn't do that.

  for (int i = 0; i < ticknum; i++) // generates tickets
	{

		n1 = 1 + (rand() % 47);
		n2 = 1 + (rand() % 47);
		n3 = 1 + (rand() % 47);
		n4 = 1 + (rand() % 47);
		n5 = 1 + (rand() % 47);
		n6 = 1 + (rand() % 27);
		if (n1 != n2 && n1 != n3 && n1 != n4 && n1 != n5 &&
			n2 != n3 && n2 != n4 && n2 != n5 &&
			n3 != n4 && n3 != n5 && n4 != n5)
		{

			//cout << "Ticket #" << i << ' ' << n1 << " " << n2 << " " << n3 << " " << n4 << " " << n5 << " " << n6 << endl;
		}


		
	}

	for (int i = 0; i < 6 ; i++) // checks tickets wins
	{
		megacount = false;
		win_count = 0;

		
		
			if (n1 == 17 || n1 == 21 || n1 == 27 || n1 == 30 || n1 == 47)
			{
				win_count++;
}
			if (n2 == 17 || n2 == 21 || n2 == 27 || n2 == 30 || n2 == 47)
			{
				win_count++;

and so on for each number,do I need to put if else after the first if and also if someone can help me set my loop to check each ticket number that would be great, I set the loop for the ticktets but I realized that it should loop based on each number on the ticket but I don't know how to go about. Thanks.

[ShiftLeft]

This is one of the ways you could generate winning numbers. Your loop to query user for numbers and test if they match will be much the same as this.

#include	<iostream>
#include	<vector>
#include	<ctime>

using namespace std;

int main (void) {
	vector <unsigned> Numbs;
	
	srand ( time (NULL) );				// Seed random number generator
	
	// Select five winning numbers in draw.
	for (int x = 0; x < 5; x++) {
		unsigned Value;
		
	Another:
		Value = rand () % 47 + 1;		// Pick a winning number
		
		/* Determine if there is a duplicate with those already selected */
		for ( auto V : Numbs )
			
			/* This is probably not required, but could happen */
			if ( V == Value )
				goto Another;

		Numbs.push_back (Value);		// Save new value in array.
		cout << "[" << Value << "]  ";	// Display to prove algo works.
	}
	
	return 0;
}

[sofi45611]

I have already generated tickets in my code, now I want to check those tickets and see if any of their numbers match the winning numbers.

[ShiftLeft]

This method although not wrong, introduces an unnecessary level of complexity.

		n1 = 1 + (rand() % 47);
		n2 = 1 + (rand() % 47);
		n3 = 1 + (rand() % 47);
		n4 = 1 + (rand() % 47);
		n5 = 1 + (rand() % 47);
		n6 = 1 + (rand() % 27);

However, if this is what you choose then a viable option may be;

    if ( Check_Number (selection))
        cout << selection << " matches" << endl;

In the function "Check_Number" you could implement something like in lines 10 - 12 in your example.