Incorrect Input Format PLEASE HELP

[ndawg123]

Hey guys what im trying to do is write a yatzee game with C.

And im stuck already and its the start?!?!

I want the user to type there 5 numbers.

i.e My program so far does this


Please enter dice Values:
> 1 2 3 4 5

it will then print the numbers
1 2 3 4 5

now thats cool.

But i also want error messages i.e if there are too many numbers entered, or if its in the incorrect input format or incorrect values for the numbers. I.e lower then 1 or higher then 6.

so this is the program ive written so far :
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>

int main (int argc, char **argv) {

int dice[5];
int loop;
int next;
int flag2;
int flag1;

printf("Please enter dice values:\n");
for(loop=0;loop < 5; loop++){
scanf("%d",&dice[loop]);
}


for (loop=0,flag2=0,flag1=0;loop<5 && flag2!=5 && flag1<1;loop++){

if(dice[0]>6||dice[1]>6||dice[2]>6||dice[3]>6||dice[4]>6||dice[0]<1||dice[1]<1||dice[2]<1||dice[3]<1||dice[4]<1){
flag1++;
}
else if (dice[0]<6||dice[1]<6||dice[2]<6||dice[3]<6||dice[4]<6||dice[0]>1||dice[1]>1||dice[2]>1||dice[3]>1||dice[4]>1){
flag2++;
printf("%d ",dice[loop]);
}

}
if(dice[0]>6||dice[1]>6||dice[2]>6||dice[3]>6||dice[4]>6||dice[0]<1||dice[1]<1||dice[2]<1||dice[3]<1||dice[4]<1){
printf("Values out of output range.\n");
}
next=getchar();
if(next==' '){
next=getchar();
if(isdigit(next)){
printf("Incorrect number of values.\n");
}
}
return (0);
}

There are two things wrong with this. It prints the Value out of range Error message fine.

but for the incorrect number of values i.e sum1 enters 7 values instead of 5 like below
Please enter numbers:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Output:
1 2 3 4 5 Incorrect number of values?

How do i fix that????

also if its a wrong input like
1, 3 +4 6,5 2 (instead of 1 3 4 6 5 2) how would i print an error message for that Please help me.

And thanks in advance

[ilikepython]

Hey guys what im trying to do is write a yatzee game with C.

And im stuck already and its the start?!?!

I want the user to type there 5 numbers.

i.e My program so far does this


Please enter dice Values:
> 1 2 3 4 5

it will then print the numbers
1 2 3 4 5

now thats cool.

But i also want error messages i.e if there are too many numbers entered, or if its in the incorrect input format or incorrect values for the numbers. I.e lower then 1 or higher then 6.

so this is the program ive written so far :
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>

int main (int argc, char **argv) {

int dice[5];
int loop;
int next;
int flag2;
int flag1;

printf("Please enter dice values:\n");
for(loop=0;loop < 5; loop++){
scanf("%d",&dice[loop]);
}


for (loop=0,flag2=0,flag1=0;loop<5 && flag2!=5 && flag1<1;loop++){

if(dice[0]>6||dice[1]>6||dice[2]>6||dice[3]>6||dice[4]>6||dice[0]<1||dice[1]<1||dice[2]<1||dice[3]<1||dice[4]<1){
flag1++;
}
else if (dice[0]<6||dice[1]<6||dice[2]<6||dice[3]<6||dice[4]<6||dice[0]>1||dice[1]>1||dice[2]>1||dice[3]>1||dice[4]>1){
flag2++;
printf("%d ",dice[loop]);
}

}
if(dice[0]>6||dice[1]>6||dice[2]>6||dice[3]>6||dice[4]>6||dice[0]<1||dice[1]<1||dice[2]<1||dice[3]<1||dice[4]<1){
printf("Values out of output range.\n");
}
next=getchar();
if(next==' '){
next=getchar();
if(isdigit(next)){
printf("Incorrect number of values.\n");
}
}
return (0);
}

There are two things wrong with this. It prints the Value out of range Error message fine.

but for the incorrect number of values i.e sum1 enters 7 values instead of 5 like below
Please enter numbers:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Output:
1 2 3 4 5 Incorrect number of values?

How do i fix that????

also if its a wrong input like
1, 3 +4 6,5 2 (instead of 1 3 4 6 5 2) how would i print an error message for that Please help me.

And thanks in advance

First I suggest you use code tags([code'][/code'], w/o the asteriks). It makes code easier to read.
Second, in your second for loop, I don't understand why you have the flag1 and flag2 variables. Instead of the flag1 variable you can try the break keyword which breaks out of the current loop. Still, there's no point in testing in every iteration of the loop if the values are out the range. And instead of haveing all those "||"s, you can just do that in a separate for loop like this:

for (int x = 0; x < 5; x++){
    if (dice[x] > 6 || dice[x] < 1){
        printf("Values are out of range\n");
        break;}}    // break out of the for loop
 

after that you shouldnt need to check that again.
Also, to check if the user entered more than 5 values use the sizeof() function:

if (sizeof(dice) / 4 > 5){                           // the reason I divided by four is
printf("Too many numbers entered\n")}   // because ints are 4 bytes long and
                                                         // sizeof returns the actual byte size
 

You could set a variable in each of those tests if everything went correctly and then print the actual numbers. If not then ask the user to enter again.
Does that help?