C++ troubleshooting (please and thank you!)

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[vestal wolf]

C++ troubleshooting (please and thank you!)

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[twin ember]

what's wrong with it? ah nevermind, you said that

my beamsplitter " | " would only go down, and my beamsplitter " " would only go right, I want it reflect both ways.
This is probably because you have this: c++ if (direction == "left" || direction == "right") { direction = "up"; direction = "down"; }

this doesn't do what you want it to do

but I'm not sure what that is. Do you want the beam to go in two directions simultaneously?

[vestal wolf]

yes I want it to be able to split both going up and down until it is no longer visible in the 7x7 grid

I think its overriding to only using the down and right

[twin ember]

yeah that's what it's doing

this sounds like a typical DFS exercise

by the way, you should really use an enum class instead of strings for the directions

if you have a typo somewhere, like doen instead of down, then the compiler won't tell you if you're using strings

but with an enum class, it will

[twin ember]

or maybe it's BFS instead of DFS, actually

[vestal wolf]

Is there anything way I can have it reflect both ways (up and down) and (left and right)?

[twin ember]

your function already takes a laserQueue as parameter

you can insert new nodes into that queue

if you're unsure how exactly you should do that, then it's probably a good idea to look up how BFS works

[vestal wolf]

got it thank you so much! heading to another class will update you asap