I'm having problems with two for loops inside of my program and the if/else statements inside of them. The counter starts at 0, then increments every time the loop is run. I have tested, and the counter increments properly, but the if/else statements act as if the counter starts at 1 and then stays there (I have added comments in my code where it seems to "get stuck".) Can anyone help me? It's probably something super-obvious but I just don't see it. Thank you.

using namespace std;



// Define global constants

// The integer maximum number of cards that can be in a player’s hand = 10
const int maxCards = 10;
// The integer maximum number of players = 5
const int maxPlayers = 5;

// Define 2 global data structures:

struct card {
 //The suit as a character:  H-hearts, S-spades, C-clubs, D-diamonds
 char cardSuit;
 // The face as a character: A-ace, K-king, Q-queen, J-jack, T-ten, 9-2
 char cardFace;
 // The value as an integer: A=13, K=12, Q=11, J=10, 9-2
 int cardValue;
 // Status of the card in the deck: true=in the deck, false=in the stack or a player’s hand
 bool cardStatus;


};


struct player {
 // An array of Cards up to the max number of cards in a player’s hand above

 card playerCards[maxCards] = {};

};

int main(void) {
 // Initialize stack
 //  Declare an array of 52 Cards to represent a new stack of cards 
 card initialCards[52];


 // For every card
 int initialCardCounter = 0;


 // For each suit
 for (int initialSuitCounter = 0; initialSuitCounter < 4; initialSuitCounter  ) {



     int initialSuitLoopCounter = initialSuitCounter;

     // Assign a Suit
     if (initialSuitLoopCounter = 0) {
         initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardSuit = 'H';


     }
     // !!! It skips to this point, then doesn't increment. !!!
     else if (initialSuitLoopCounter = 1) {
         initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardSuit = 'S';


     }
     else if (initialSuitLoopCounter = 2) {
         initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardSuit = 'C';


     }
     else if (initialSuitLoopCounter = 3) {
         initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardSuit = 'D';


     }
     else if (initialSuitLoopCounter > 3) {
         cout << "Error";
     }

     cout << initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardSuit;

     // For each face
     for (int initialFaceCounter = 0; initialFaceCounter < 14; initialFaceCounter  ) {

         int initialFaceLoopCounter = initialFaceCounter;

         if (initialFaceLoopCounter = 0) {
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardFace = 'A';
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardValue = 13;

         }
         // !!! Same issue here, skips to here even though InitialFaceLoopCounter = 0 and just stays here filling the entire array with 'K' !!!
         else if (initialFaceLoopCounter = 1) {
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardFace = 'K';
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardValue = 12;

         }
         else if (initialFaceLoopCounter = 2) {
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardFace = 'Q';
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardValue = 11;

         }
         else if (initialFaceLoopCounter = 3) {
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardFace = 'J';
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardValue = 10;
         }
         else if (initialFaceLoopCounter = 4) {
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardFace = 'T';
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardValue = 9;
         }
         else if (initialFaceLoopCounter = 5) {
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardFace = '9';
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardValue = 8;
         }
         else if (initialFaceLoopCounter = 6) {
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardFace = '8';
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardValue = 7;
         }
         else if (initialFaceLoopCounter = 7) {
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardFace = '7';
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardValue = 6;
         }
         else if (initialFaceLoopCounter = 8) {
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardFace = '6';
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardValue = 5;
         }
         else if (initialFaceLoopCounter = 9) {
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardFace = '5';
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardValue = 4;
         }
         else if (initialFaceLoopCounter = 10) {
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardFace = '4';
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardValue = 3;
         }
         else if (initialFaceLoopCounter = 11) {
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardFace = '3';
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardValue = 2;
         }
         else if (initialFaceLoopCounter = 12) {
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardFace = '2';
             initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardValue = 1;
         }
         else if (initialFaceLoopCounter > 12) {
             cout << "Error";
         }

         cout << initialCards[initialCardCounter].cardFace;
         // Increment the card counter

         if (initialCardCounter < 51) {
             initialCardCounter  ;
         }

     } // end for each face


 } // end for each suit





} // end main

CodePudding user response：

if (initialFaceLoopCounter = 0)

These are assignments, not comparisons. You need to adjust your if statements to double == to compare the values.