Moving array of characters

[victor1599]

khn

[whitenite1]

@victor1599

I don't quite understand this 'game'. Is your map just one long line of 28 squares, or were you wanting 4 rows of 7 squares? What is the object?

[victor1599]

sorry, he

[whitenite1]

@victor1599

Well, here's the program using the 'R' key, for 'move Right'.
I also added in text showing what the lines do

#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
#include <string.h>

using namespace std;

bool gameRunning = true;

char Player = 'P'; // These are to be char statements, not int's
char Dragon = 'D';

char map[28];

int main()
{
	int display;
	char move;
	
		map[0] = Player;
		map[27] = Dragon;
		cout << map[0];// Next 7 lines, print out the map array
		for (display = 1; display < 27; display++)
		{
			map[display] = '*';
			cout << map[display];
		}
		cout << map[27];
		cout << endl << endl << "Press 'R', to move your character, 'P', one square to the right, to meet the Dragon.." << endl;
		// Above line, lets user know what key to press
		display=0; // Start at map[0]
		while (gameRunning == true) 
	{
			do
			{
				cin >> move; // Get user input
				move = toupper(move); // Make it uppercase
				if(move == 'R') // If input correct
				{
					map[display] = '*'; // Remove old location of player
					display++; // Increase display location
					map[display] = 'P'; // Insert player in new map array location
				}
			}while(move !='R');
			for(int x=0;x<28;x++) // Print out new map array with the changed player location
					cout << map[x];
			if (display == 27) // If player at end of map array, end game
			{
				gameRunning = false;
			}
	}
		cout << endl << endl << "You met up with the Dragon. Game over." << endl; // Show text explaining why game ended
}

[victor1599]

Thank you!!

[zapshe]

victor, stop editing away your questions after they've been answered. It makes the entire discussion useless for anyone who might have benefited.

[Repeater]

For completion, here's the question, repeated:

Hi, I'm trying to create a game in which the 'P' is my player and the 'D' is the dragon, and I have 28 positions on the board and the player starts in space 1. The player can only travel forward(higher numbers). And I have to keep track of the current position of the player and mark it on the on-screen map with P. I already made the map but I don't know how to do it so that my player can move forward. Thanks in advanced

#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
#include <string.h>

using namespace std;

bool gameRunning = true;

int Player = 'P';
int Dragon = 'D';

char map[28];

int main()
{
	while (gameRunning == true) {
		for (int display = 0; display < 28; display++)
		{
			map[display] = '*';
			(map[0] = Player);
			(map[27] = Dragon);
			cout << map[display];

			if (display == 27) {
				gameRunning = false;
			}
		}

	}

[zapshe]

Odd that you had that handy, but nice.

[Ganado]

Google has it cached, lol.

[zapshe]

Where? Is it somewhere in the HTML of the site?

[Ganado]

Search for this URL with google. Click on little triangle to the right of the link. Click "Cached".

[zapshe]

Ah, I see. Thanks!

[keskiverto]

Should we wait until Google has a solid cache, before we answer new questions?

[zapshe]

Yes