Error C2181: illegal else without matching if.

[njleos3]

I'm making a number guessing game program and I keep getting the error: C2181: illegal else without matching if.

[Disch]

I'm guessing you have an else statement that doesn't have an if statement immediately before it.

[norm b]

Looks like you need an if to match that else ;-)

Hard to help without more info.

Edit: note to self - refresh before posting.

[njleos3]

I got it to work but now it doesn't do the calculations I inputted. Here is my script... The calculations are in the else if statements...

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()

{
int secretnumber = 77;
int num, num2, guessattempts=1-10;

//Greeting to the user
cout <<"\t\t\tWelcome to the guessing game!\n";
cout <<"\t\t\t_____________________________\n";

//Directions for the user
cout <<"Directions: ";
cout <<"You will have a total of 10 guesses to figure\n";
cout <<"\t what is the secret number.\n";
cout <<"\t The secret number lies between 1 to 100.\n\n";

//User input
cout <<"\t Please enter your chosen number.\n\t ";
cin >> num;


if ((num <=0 || num > 100))

{
cout <<"\t Please enter a number from 1 to 100.\n\n";

}

else if ( (num <1 && num >77) )

{
num2 = num - secretnumber;

cout <<"\t You are " << num2 <<"away from the secret number.\n";
cout <<"\t Try again.\n";
cout <<"\t You have " <<guessattempts<<" guess attempts remaining.\n";

}

else if ((num <77 && num >100))

{
num2 = num + secretnumber;

cout <<"\t You are " << num2 <<" away from the secret number.\n";
cout <<"\t Try again.\n\n";
cout <<"\t You have " <<guessattempts<<" guess attempts remaining.\n";
}

else if (num == 77)

{
cout <<"\t You guessed the right number! Congrats!";

}


return 0;
}

[norm b]

Please use code tags. It makes your code easier to read and allows one to reference code by line number.

You need a loop (for or while) e.g.:

int guessattemps=0;
while(guessattemps < 10){
... //code

else if(num == 77){
	cout << ...
	break;
}
++guessattempts;
}

Neither of these statements will ever be true:

if((num < 1 && num > 77))
...
else if ((num <77 && num >100))

You have already checked the entry above so there is no need for the "num<1" and "num>100".

[njleos3]

Okay so I do that for all the else if inside the while?