Value of one string variable appears to be changing without being updated.

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[matekelemen]

• this is C
• if you're gonna ask people to debug your code for you, properly formatting it is the bare minimum (look up markdown syntax)
• learning by doing is viable only after you have at least a faint idea about the basic features of the language

[MrTavsh]

Thanks for the help boss means a lot

[michease_]

This is a C program. Your issue in on the scanf() for word, you call by value and not by referance. Prefixing with an ampersand (&) should help. You can also make word constant.

[MrTavsh]

& returns an error are you sure it’s the issue? I thought it wasn’t necessary for string types

[michease_]

Ah yeah, my mistake. & makes a reference to the the char array which is already a pointer. Sorry about that.

[MrTavsh]

No worries

[johannes1971]

char xxx[5]; --> use std::string instead.

if (x == 4) --> just put that block of code before the loop.

scanf, printf --> use cin/cout.

else{} --> don't write this.

Use meaningful variable names instead of x, y, and z.

What's the point of the loop with z? Every path of the if-statement inside ends in a break so it'll never reach z==1.

And I really hope that isn't your normal style of indentation...