I am making a hangman game and have gotten stuck at the point where the code will detect the given value via scanf and check if it's equal to the hangman word.

if (answer == word[x])

But I keep getting this error

operand types are incompatible ("char" and "char*")

Any solutions to bypass it?

[Edited]

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#define ARRAY_SIZE 10

int main()
{
    //randomwordgenerator
    char word[ARRAY_SIZE][200] = { "tiger", "lion", "hamster", "zebra", "horse", "camel", "lamb", "borne", "eating", "cat" };
    int x = 0;
    char mask[200];

    srand(time(0));

    x = rand() % ARRAY_SIZE;

    system("pause");//will pause the rand function

    //printf("%s\n", word[x]);

    //masking and unmasking word
    char m = strlen(word[x]);//will count the number of letters of the random word
    strcpy_s(mask, m, word[x]);

    for (int i = 0; i < m;   i) //loop until all letters are masked
    {
       mask[i] = '_';
       printf("%c ", mask[i]);
    }

    printf("%d\n", x);//only to show what word in the array 0-9

    //Introduction
    printf("\nHey! Can you please save me? \n");
    printf(" O\n/|\\ \n/ \\ \n");

    //Ask for answer
    printf("\nType a letter to guess the word and save me. Here are some tips!\n 1) The '_' above are how many letters make up the word, isn't that neat!\n 2) The letters are case sensitive so please pick lower case or I might die\n 3) Have fun! \nNow with that out of the way please type in your guess; ");
    
    char answer[m];
    char c;

    //loop w counter
    int counter; //for the defeat
    int found = 0; //for the victory
    for (counter = 1; counter < 11; counter  ) {
        scanf_s("%s", &c);
        scanf_s("%s", &answer);
        strcpy(answer, &c);

        if (strcmp(answer, word[x]) == 0)
            {
                found  ;
            }

        if (found == x)
            {
                printf("\n-------------------------\n");
                printf("           WIN               ");
                printf("\n-------------------------\n");
                break;
            }


        if (counter == 2)
        {
            printf("\n\n\n\n\n\n\n=========\n");//stand1
        }
        else if (counter == 4)
        {
            printf("\n \n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n=========\n");//stand2
        }
        else if (counter == 6)
        {
            printf("\n --- \n|   |\n|\n|\n|\n|\n=========\n");//stand3 complete
        }
        else if (counter == 8)
        {
            printf("\n --- \n|   |\n|   O\n|\n|\n|\n=========\n");//head
        }
        else if (counter == 10)
        {
            printf("\n --- \n|   |\n|   O\n|   |\n|\n|\n=========\n");//body
        }
        else if (counter == 12)
        {
            printf("\n --- \n|   |\n|   O\n|   |\n|    \\ \n|\n=========\n");//right leg
        }
        else if (counter == 14)
        {
            printf("\n --- \n|   |\n|   O\n|   |\n|  / \\ \n|\n=========\n");//left leg
        }
        else if (counter == 16)
        {
            printf("\n --- \n|   |\n|   O\n|  /| \n|  / \\ \n|\n=========\n");//left hand
        }
        else if (counter == 18)
        {
            printf("\n --- \n|   |\n|   O\n|  /|\\ \n|  / \\ \n|\n=========\n");//right hand
        }
        else if (counter == 20)
        {
            printf("\n-------------------------\n");
            printf("          LOSE               ");
            printf("\n-------------------------\n");
            printf("\nReally left me hanging there buddy");//Defeat
            break;
        }
    }
    return 0;

}

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CodePudding user response：

First off, you were using the strcpy_s function wrong, you didn't give the length of the string. So I changed it like;

strcpy_s(mask, m, word[x]);

And also, the format specifier we're going to use while getting a string from the user will be %s like;

scanf_s("%s", &answer);

Finally, I prefer using strcmp function to compare two strings, if these strings are equal then the result would be 0, so the if statement changes like;

if (strcmp(&answer, word[x]) == 0)

EDIT: Ok so if you can't use the if statement with the input from the user, we can get the input, copy that into another string and then compare these two strings. So I fixed it like;

char answer[m];
char c;
//loop w counter
int counter;
for (counter = 1; counter < 11; counter  ) {
    scanf_s("%s", &c);
    strcpy(answer, &c);

    if (strcmp(answer, word[x]) == 0)
    {
        printf("\nYou win! The answer was: %s", word[x]);
        return 0;
    }

We get an input with c, copy the string into an answer array, BTW I'm not sure about its size so you can modify it, and then compare these two strings in the strcmp function.

EDIT: We don't need another string and copy that into an array, instead, we can directly get the array from the user and just compare it with the word[x]. So here's the latest version:

char answer[ARRAY_SIZE];
//loop w counter
int counter;
for (counter = 1; counter < 11; counter  ) {
    scanf_s("%s", &answer);
    if (strcmp(answer, word[x]) == 0)
    {
        printf("\nYou win! The answer was: %s", word[x]);
        return 0;
    }