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Top Forums Programming Masking Password with *'s Post 302482863 by bigdrock44 on Wednesday 22nd of December 2010 06:01:31 PM

12-22-2010

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Like you said, it is a separate function, but I need to utilize it so that it returns the array that the user typed in. I don't want a simple true or false to be returned because that is not what I'm doing. I know I use the word "password" but it's more so a code. I'll try to give a basic idea of what my program does. I'll just pseudo code it.

Code:

int main()
{
   /*Prompt player one for secret code*/
   codemaker[4] = read_unbuffered();              /*Here is where I want to use read_unbuffered to somehow return the array.*/

   /*Comper codemaker's secret code to the codebreaker's guess*/
   for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
   {
       codemaker[i] = codebreaker[i];         /*This is way simplified and wouldn't even work, but just to give a vague idea of what's going on.
    }

   printKey();        /*Prints a key so that the codebreaker can see what's right and wrong about his guess*/

   return 0;
}

As you can see, I use codemaker[] throughout the program and I need it to be set to the array that is created in read_unbuffered.

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