Database System Concepts
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ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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I am trying to program a hangman game in C++ using Dev-C++, complete with an ASCII-based main menu. This is the code that I have so far:

//What is this code and what is it doing?   
#include <cstdlib> // What do each of these do?
#include <ctime>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;
//What is this code doing? 
int NUM_TRY = 7;
int checkGuess (char, string, string);
void menu();
string message = "Play!";

//What is this code doing? 
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    string name;
    char letter;
    string animal;
   
    string animals[] =
    {
        "owl",
        "bear",
        "ocelot",
        "whale",
        "zebra",
        "armadillo",
        "chimpanzee",
        "alligator",
        "seahorse",
        "feline",
        "bovine",
        "horse",
        "canine"
    };
    
//What is this code doing?

    srand(time(NULL));
    int n=rand()% 12;
    animal=animals[n];
    
    
    string hide_m(animal.length(),'X');
 
    
//What is this code and what is it doing?   
    
    while (NUM_TRY!=0)
    {
        menu();
        cout << "\n\n\t\t\t\t" << hide_m;
        cout << "\n\n\t\t\t\tGuess a letter: ";
        cin >> letter;
        
        if (checkGuess(letter, animal, hide_m)==0)
        {
            message = "Incorrect letter.";
            NUM_TRY = NUM_TRY - 1;
        }
        else
        {
            message = "NICE! You guessed a letter";
        }
 
 
        
        if (animal==hide_m)
        {
            message = "Congratulations! You got it!";
            menu();
            cout << "\n\t\t\t\tThe animal is : " << animal << endl;
            break;
        }
    }
    if(NUM_TRY == 0)
    {
        message = "No!! You've been hanged.";
        menu();
        cout << "\n\t\t\t\tThe animal was : " << animal << endl;
    }
    cin.ignore();
    cin.get();
    return 0;
}
 
//What is this code and what is it doing?   
 
int checkGuess (char guess, string secretanimal, string &guessanimal)
{
    int i;
    int matches=0;
    int len=secretanimal.length();
    for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
    {
        
        if (guess == guessanimal[i])
            return 0;
        
        if (guess == secretanimal[i])
        {
            guessanimal[i] = guess;
            matches++;
        }
    }
    return matches;
}
 
menu{(
//What is this code and what is it doing?   
    system("color 05"); //change the color!
    system("cls");
    cout << "\t\t\t\t*\t*";
 
  cout<<"\t\t\t\t**\t**";
   cout<<"\t\t\t\t***\t***";
   cout<<"\t\t\t\t****\t****";
   cout<<"\t\t\t\t*****\t*****";
    cout<<"\t\t\t\t******\t******";
   cout<<"\t\t\t\t*******\t*******";
   cout<<"\t\t\t\t*******\t*******";
   cout<<"\t\t\t\t******\t******";
   cout<<"\t\t\t\t*****\t*****";
   cout<<"\t\t\t\t****\t****";
   cout<<"\t\t\t\t***\t***";
   cout<<"\t\t\t\t**\t**";
   cout<<"\t\t\t\t*\t*";
//What is this code and what is it doing?    
 cout<<"\t\t@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@";
                cout << "\n\t\t\t\tHangman Game!"; //Feel free to change the wording
                cout << "\n\t\tYou have " << NUM_TRY << " tries to try and guess the animal.";
                cout << "\n\n\t\t\t\t" + message;
 cout<<"\n\t\t@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@\n";
 )}

I cannot get the code to compile because of ONE error. Some help would be greatly appreciated.

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