strcmp() function not working for the word "university" [closed] - c++

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So in this small project for my school I needed to build a word guessing game everything works fine except the string university which always gives output incorrect, I tried changing it to universit and it works but university doesn't work. I cant figure out what the problem is.
Also are there any other alternatives to strcmp()?
#include <iostream>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{ // at first we are basically going to give an intro to the gameseco
cout << " HANGMAN : GUESS THE WORD AND NOT DIE!!\n\n\n";
cout << " Welcome to the game player!!\n\n";
cout << " Rules: Guess the word by typing a letter based on given hints.\n";
cout << " Multiple incorrect guesses will HANG YOU.\n\n";
// here we add different words in the game for the guessing system using a 2 dimensional array
char word[20][20] = {
"higher",
"secondary",
"first",
"year",
"cotton",
"university",
"computer",
"science",
"project",
"hangman",
};
char newword[20], guess[10];
bool again = 1;
while (again == 1)
{
again = 0;
srand(time(0));
int x = 0, wrong = 0, z = (rand() % 10) + 0;
strcpy(newword, word[z]); // so we used strcpy command to copy an element of the 2D array of randomly generated index to a new string
cout << "Enter your guess. \nHINT: Word Length(indicated by underscores) = "; // hint no. one the gives us the exact lenth of word
for (x = 0; newword[x] != '\0'; x++)
{
cout << "-";
}
cout << "\nWord starts with: '" << newword[0] << "'"; // hint no. two which gives the player an idea what the word might be
cout << "\n\n";
for (wrong = 1; wrong <= 6; wrong++) // the loop here checks whether the input given by the user is correct or not
{
cin >> guess; // the input is taken here
if (strcmp(guess, newword) == 0) // the input is compared with the word to be guessed
{ // using the strcmp() function from the string.h library
cout << "Correct!\n"; // if the guess is correct the program will print correct and correct and end
break; // correct guess will terminate the loop
}
else if (wrong == 1)
{
cout << "Opps! Wrong guess!\n\n"; // if player inputs wrong word a poll will appear for hanging the person
cout << "I=-=\n";
cout << "|\n";
cout << "|\n";
cout << "|\n";
cout << "|\n";
cout << "I\n";
}
else if (wrong == 2)
{
cout << "Opps! Wrong guess again!\n\n"; // each wrong word will result in the appearance of of a hanging person
cout << "I=-=\n";
cout << "| |\n";
cout << "|\n";
cout << "|\n";
cout << "|\n";
cout << "I\n";
}
else if (wrong == 3)
{
cout << "Opps! Wrong guess again!\n\n";
cout << "I=-=\n";
cout << "| |\n";
cout << "| O\n";
cout << "|\n";
cout << "|\n";
cout << "I\n";
}
else if (wrong == 4)
{
cout << "Opps! Wrong guess again!\n\n";
cout << "I=-=\n";
cout << "| |\n";
cout << "| O\n";
cout << "I--|--\n";
cout << "|\n";
cout << "I\n";
}
else if (wrong == 5)
{
cout << "Opps! Wrong guess again!\n\n";
cout << "I=-=\n";
cout << "| |\n";
cout << "| O\n";
cout << "I--|--\n";
cout << "| o\n";
cout << "I\n";
}
else if (wrong == 6)
{
cout << "Opps! Wrong guess again!\nLast Chance!!\n\n"; // unfortunately the player couldn't guess the word
cout << "I=-=\n";
cout << "| |\n";
cout << "| O\n"; // the hanging person compeletely appears and the program ends
cout << "|--|--\n";
cout << "| o\n";
cout << "I | |\n";
cout << "YOU ARE DEAD HAHAHA!!!";
}
}
cout << "Do you want to play again?\nPress 1 for yes, 0 for no."; // here it is asked if we want to play again
cin >> again;
}
return 0;
}

Answer 1

The problem seems to be this declaration:
char guess[10];
Your array declaration should always cater for a \0 character at the end of string. The length of "university" is 10 character, to hold the entire string you required an array of 11 characters.
So please change the length of guess array to be longest string length plus 1.
char guess[11];
As a side note:
Since you are using C++, you should fully utilize the facilities offers by the language. In C++, you should use std::string to store array of characters, use std::vector to store a collection of objects etc.