L-Force Feedback 121012

declarations.h

int currentPlayer = 1;
char choiceOfPile;
int choiceOfNumber;
int piles ;
int index ;
int players ;

//After user input for piles has been specified
int Pile[piles] ;

getAndStore.c

printf(" \n\n\n Welcome to Nim \n\n\n");

//getting and storing start values given by the player
piles = numPiles() ;

printf("How many players will be in this game? No more than ten can play.") ;

while(functioningNumber(players) == false)
{
    scanf(" %d" , &players) ;
}

for(index = 0 ; index < piles ; index++)
{
    int value=0 ;
    
    printf("How many beans are in pile %d to start with? (No more than 10) \n", index+1) ;
    
    switch(index)
    {
        case 0: 
            printf("Usually this pile has 3 \n") ;
            break;
        case 1:
            printf("Usually this pile has 4 \n") ;
            break;
        case 2:
            printf("Usually this pile has 5 \n") ;
            break;
        default:
            //*twiddle thumbs*
    }
    
    
    while(functioningNumber(value) == false)
    {
        scanf(" %d", &value);
    }
    
    Pile[index] = value ;
}

play.c

//playing game

while(beansRemain(piles, Pile)>0)
{
    printf("\n\nPlayer %d's turn\n", currentPlayer);
    
    for(index = 0 ; index < piles ; index++)
    {
        printf("Pile %d: %d beans\n", index+1, Pile[index]);
    }
    printf("Which pile do you want to move from?");
    scanf(" %c", &choiceOfPile);
    
    printf("How many beans do you want to take?");
    scanf("%d", &choiceOfNumber);
    
    Pile[choiceOfPile-1] -= choiceOfNumber;
    
    currentPlayer = currentPlayer+1;
    if(currentPlayer>players)
    {
        currentPlayer=1 ;
    }
}

Problem.md

Sorry I am sending so many messages, but I have a piece of code that is annoying me beyond words to describe.

I have been working on making things like the number of players, number of slots, and beans per slot adjustable, then I am going to move on to enforce game rules.

But the code that is getting in my way is the fact that I cannot make the array's values change.

I managed to assign the values in each slot initially, but I can't get them to change when the player chooses to remove beans. I can't figure out why the values are staying the same.

I have this as my code in the trouble area.