for loop inside a for loop with if else condition

Question

for (x = 0; x < 4; x++) {
    for (int a = 22; a <= 62;) {
        if (isCooked[x] == 1) {
            gotoxy(a,3); printf("cooked");
            gotoxy(a,4); printf("%-10s",food[userServings[x]]);
            a += 12;
        } else {
            gotoxy(a,3); printf("!");
            gotoxy(a,4); printf("%-10s",food[userServings[x]]);
            a += 12;
        }
    }
}

input output

May I ask whats wrong with loop above and conditions. I'm trying to print the name of the 4 vegetables that I have chosen. By using gotoxy I want to print them on the given coordinates on my loop.

Answer 1

Instead of a second loop, you should just compute the gotoxy coordinate:

for (x = 0; x < 4; x++) {
    int a = 22 + x * 12;

    if (isCooked[x] == 1) {
        gotoxy(a, 3); printf("cooked");
        gotoxy(a, 4); printf("%-10s", food[userServings[x]]);
    } else {
        gotoxy(a, 3); printf("!     ");
        gotoxy(a, 4); printf("%-10s", food[userServings[x]]);
    }
}