pset3 plurality errors: expected expression if for

Question

I ran check50 and got the following errors:

running clang plurality.c -o plurality -std=c11 -ggdb -lm -lcs50... plurality.c:71:29: error: expected expression for (int i = 0; i < int voter_count; i++) ^ plurality.c:87:13: error: expected expression if (float(candidates[i].votes / voter_count) * 100 > 50) ^ 2 errors generated.

EDIT: I just caught another error as I got it wrong when someone is a winner. I will work on that but I think the above errors are not connected to this. It's my first post here and happy for every hint I get, even how to improve asking for help

MY CODE LOOKS LIKE THIS:

bool vote(string name)
{
        for (int i = 0; i < int voter_count; i++)
        {
            if (name == candidates[i].name)
            {
                candidates[i].votes += 1;
                printf("Vote: %s\n", name);
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
}
// Calculate who has majority and print the winner (or winners) of the election
void print_winner(void)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < candidate_count; i++)
    {
        if (float(candidates[i].votes / voter_count) * 100 > 50)
        {
            printf("%s\n", candidates[i].name);
        }
    }
}

I have fixed most of the other errors but this one I just can't make sense of. Is it a semantic or a logical error? Can someone help? Thanks!

Answer 1

when casting data types, the cast keyword, in this case float, needs to be enclosed in parentheses.

    if( (float)...)

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