Help! On Lecture 42 (Won't read Bulls and Cows on my Guesses anymore)

[OldDauber]

The Debug Assertion Failed error you’re getting is well known here (and if I’m not mistaken the instructor covers it in one of the next videos), Anyways, see one of my previous replies on how to fix it:

Debug Assertion Failed Error

I must say this is not quite the correct solution. This code only works when the hidden word and the guessed word have the same length, otherwise it may or may not cause an issue. e.g. it will cause an assertion failure when your hidden word has 5 letters and you try a guess with a 3-letter word. The problem is this code assumes that Guess.length() == MyHiddenWord.length() always! So instead of using MyHiddenWordLength in both for loops, you use Guess.length() in the first loop, and as a resul…