Styjun

I have this hangman project coming up as a C++ instruction from our professor. To do this I had help from YouTube (credits to NVitanovic) and based it from his hangman game in C++.

Upon doing the code in visual studio, the ifstream reader(path); part of the code which looks for the file words.txt and loads a random word from it shows an error instead which won't let me compile the code in wxDev, however it compiles fine in visual studio. Is there a header I am missing or should I mofidy the path finder as a whole? Below is the whole code:

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <vector>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <time.h>

using namespace std;

void sign(string message, bool printTop = true, bool printBottom = true) 
 if (printTop) ";
 
 else ";
 

 bool front = true;
 for (int i = message.length(); i < 33; i++) 
 if (front) 
 message = " " + message;
 
 else 
 message = message + " ";
 
 front = !front;
 
 cout << message.c_str();

 if (printBottom) 
 cout << "
 else 
 cout << "


void hangman(int guess = 0) 
 if (guess >= 1) 
 sign("
 else 
 sign("", false, false);
 

 if (guess >= 2) 
 sign("
 else 
 sign("", false, false);
 

 if (guess >= 3) 
 sign("O", false, false);
 
 else 
 sign("", false, false);
 

 if (guess >= 4) 
 sign("/
 else 
 sign("", false, false);
 

 if (guess >= 5) ", false, false);
 sign("/ \", false, false);
 
 else 
 sign("", false, false);
 sign("", false, false);
 

 if (guess >= 6) 
 else 
 sign("", false, false);
 sign("", false, false);
 


void showLetters(string input, char from, char to) 
 string s;

 for (char i = from; i <= to; i++) 
 if (input.find(i) == string::npos) 
 s += i;
 s += " ";
 
 else 
 s += " ";
 //Two spaces to fix the padding between the letters.
 
 

 sign(s, false, false);



void availableLetters(string taken) 
 showLetters(taken, 'A', 'M');
 showLetters(taken, 'N', 'Z');


bool wordWin(string word, string guessed) 
 bool won = true;

 string s;

 for (int i = 0; i < word.length(); i++) 
 if (guessed.find(word[i]) == string::npos) 
 won = false;
 s += "_ ";
 
 else 
 s += word[i];
 s += " ";
 
 
 sign(s, false);
 return won;


string getWord(string path) 
 int lineCount = 0; 
 string word; 
 vector<string> v; 

 ifstream reader(path);

 if (reader.is_open()) 
 while (std::getline(reader, word)) 
 v.push_back(word);
 

 int randomLine = rand() % v.size();
 //This will set the range from 0 to the number of lines.

 word = v.at(randomLine);
 reader.close();
 
 return word;


int main() 
 srand(time(0));

 string mistakes = "";
 string guessWord;

 guessWord = getWord("words.txt");

 cout << guessWord << endl << endl;

 sign("HANG MAN");

 hangman(6);

 sign("AVAILABLE LETTERS");

 availableLetters(mistakes);

 sign("WORD TO GUESS");

 wordWin(guessWord, mistakes);

 cout << endl;
 system("pause");
 return 0;

Below is the segment of the path finder error:

string getWord(string path) 
 int lineCount = 0; 
 string word; 
 vector<string> v; 

 ifstream reader(path);

 if (reader.is_open()) 
 while (std::getline(reader, word)) 
 v.push_back(word);
 

 int randomLine = rand() % v.size();
 //This will set the range from 0 to the number of lines.

 word = v.at(randomLine);
 reader.close();
 
 return word;

Thank you very much in advance!

Edit: Nevermind, I found the problem on my own and just had to change "path" in the code ifstream reader(path); to words.txt. I'll leave this here though for others in the future :D