PSET3 Runoff — cannot seem to resolve “is_tie detects tie after some candidates have been eliminated”

Question

I have been looking up and down through my code to no avail. Check50 shows that all tests are successful except for "is_tie detects tie after some candidates have been eliminated". I haven't the foggiest why this would be...

Please find my code presented below. Any guidance is greatly appreciated!

bool is_tie(int min)
{
    bool mass_tie;

    for (int i = 0; i < candidate_count; i++)
    {
        if (candidates[i].eliminated == false && candidates[i].votes == min)
        {
            mass_tie = true;
        }
        else
        {
            mass_tie = false;
        }
    }
    return mass_tie;
}

Answer 1

It's bad design by them. To accomplish things in Runoff usually you need candidate[i].eliminated == false but in this particular for loop you need it to be true so that && is evaluated to true.

BUT candidate[i].eliminated is evaluated to false right now so you automatically are removed from mass_tie = true; and put to mass_tie = false;

Try to nest two if statements with each condition.

A better naming would've been candidate[i].ongoing or candidate[i].present Gave me head aches too. Hope this helps at least others if you are past this.