Scanf skips every other while loop in C

Question

I\'m trying to develop a simple text-based hangman game, and the main game loop starts with a prompt to enter a guess at each letter, then goes on to check if the letter is

Answer 1

I see a couple of things in your code:

1. scanf returns the number of items it read. You will probably want to handle the cases where it returns 0 or EOF.
2. My guess would be that the user is hitting letter + Enter and you're getting the newline as the second character. An easy way to check would be to add a debugging printf statement to show what character was entered.
3. Your code will only match the first occurrence of a match letter, i.e. if the word was "test" and the user entered 't', your code would only match the first 't', not both. You need to adjust your first loop to handle this.