[BrettT.h]

Today I started to write a word search solving program, it was going well until I encountered this problem: My program runs fine until it tries to check to see if one element of an array is the same as an element in the other

void search(){
	wrdcounter = 0;
	for (int counter = 0; counter < height; counter++){
		for (int cntr = 0; cntr < width; cntr++){
			thispoint = ((counter-1)*height)+(cntr);
///it breaks here       if (wfield[counter][cntr] == word[wrdcounter]){

when I get to the last line of this code snippet, my program says that it is an access violation, and breaks the execution, why does it do this.

any help would be appreciated,

Brett

[sarmanu]

My guess is that you are going out-of-bounds in your array. Could you just post the entire source code (if you don't mind)? That would be easier for us to figure out your problem.

[BrettT.h]

void search(){
	wrdcounter = 0;
	for (int counter = 0; counter < height; counter++){
		for (int cntr = 0; cntr < width; cntr++){
			thispoint = ((counter-1)*height)+(cntr);
			if (wfield[counter][cntr] == word[wrdcounter]){
				if (thispoint = (lastpoint+1)){
					matchcheck[wrdcounter] = wfield[counter][cntr];
					wrdcounter++;
				}
				if (wrdcounter == 0){
					spoint = ((counter-1)*height)+(cntr);
					lastpoint = ((counter-1)*height)+(cntr);
					matchcheck[wrdcounter] = wfield[counter][cntr];
					wrdcounter++;
				}
			}
			if(wrdcounter == wlength){
				for (int cnr = 0; cnr < wlength; cnr++){
					if (matchcheck[cnr] == word[cnr]){
						continue;
					}
					else {
						cout << "Fatal Error : search failed.\n";
						break;
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

[sarmanu]

word[wrdcounter]

I'm pretty sure that "wrdcounter" increases over "word" total size.
I'd just put a condition here:

if ((wfield[counter][cntr] == word[wrdcounter]) && (wrdcounter < whatever_word_size_is))

This will assure that "wrdcounter" is not incremented over "word" size.
EDIT: be sure that you did not index "word" elements starting from 1.

This post has been edited by sarmanu: 13 February 2010 - 01:03 PM