C Coin Flip "You win/You lose" Message-CodePudding

I'm starting with coding and just tried making a simple coin flip function. I tried to make it to show a "you win" or "you lose" message if you chose the right one, but it didn't work. What can I do?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>

typedef enum coin {HEADS, TAILS} coin;

coin flipCoin();

int main()
{
    char answer;
    
    printf("Choose HEADS or TAILS\n");
    scanf(" %c", &answer);
    
    if( (answer=='h') || (answer=='t') ) printf("Let's start:\n");
    else printf("Let's start anyway...\n");
    
    srand( time(NULL) );

    for (int i=0; i < 1; i  )
        if (flipCoin() == HEADS) printf("HEADS\n");
        else printf("TAILS\n");
    
    return 0;
}

coin flipCoin()
{
    if (rand() % 2 == 0 ) return HEADS;
    else return TAILS;
}

Edit: the code I used for "win/lose":

if((answer=='h') && (flipCoin()== HEADS)) printf("You win!\n");
else printf("you lose!\n");
if((answer=='t') && (flipCoin()== TAILS)) printf("You win!\n");
else printf("you lose!\n");

CodePudding user response：

The code you have posted doesn't seem to show that you have tried to display "you win" or "you lose". I'm not 100% sure why you decided to use a loop. I would have tried something similar to this:

coin result = flipCoin();
if(result== HEADS && answer == 'h'){
    printf("HEADS, you win!\n");
}else if(result == TAILS && answer == 't'){
    printf("TAILS, you win!\n");
}else{
    printf("You Lost");
}

The next thing you can try to do is allow the player to keep playing and count their score.

CodePudding user response：

You did not mention "you win" or "you lose" in your code. Mention it in

if (flipCoin() == HEADS) printf("HEADS\n"); else printf("TAILS\n");

Moreover, I didn't understand the need of for loop.