Why is my C++ program only printing one character? - c++

Question

This program is suppose to generate passwords and compare to what the user inputed, if they match it breaks the while loop and outputs the user's input, but for some reason, the generated passwords are just one characters. I am new to C++, I just started like last Friday.
#include <iostream>
#include <unistd.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string Password, Passwords;
cout << "Enter a password: ";
getline(cin, Password);
sleep(.7);
system("clear");
while(Password.compare(Passwords)!= 0)
{
for (int x = 0; x <= Password.length(); x++)
{
for (char Alpha = 'a'; Alpha <= 'z'; Alpha++)
{
if(Alpha == 'z')
{
Alpha = 'a';
}
for(int I=0; I <= 10; I++)
{
Passwords = Alpha + I;
system("clear");
sleep(.7);
cout << Passwords <<endl;
}
}
}
}
cout << "Password found: " << Passwords <<endl;
return 0;
}

Answer 1

After a long back and forward in the comments, the OP explained what was his purpose. To generate random words of the same size as input and stop when it matched the input.
This code does what you want. It's in c++14 so you need a recent compiler and to set the c++14 option. Please note the actual use of random.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <random>
#include <algorithm>
using std::cin;
using std::cout;
using std::cerr;
using std::endl;
class RandomCharGenerator {
private:
static std::string s_chars_;
private:
std::random_device rd_{};
std::default_random_engine r_eng_{rd_()};
std::uniform_int_distribution<int> char_dist_{
0, static_cast<int>(s_chars_.size())};
public:
RandomCharGenerator() = default;
auto getRandomChar() -> char { return s_chars_[char_dist_(r_eng_)]; }
auto setRandomString(std::string &str) -> void {
std::generate(std::begin(str), std::end(str),
[this] { return this->getRandomChar(); });
}
};
std::string RandomCharGenerator::s_chars_ = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
auto main() -> int {
RandomCharGenerator rand_char;
auto input = std::string{};
cin >> input;
auto generated = std::string(input.size(), ' ');
do {
rand_char.setRandomString(generated);
cout << generated << endl;
} while (input != generated);
cout << "We generated what you input" << endl;
return 0;
}
For input longer than 4 characters it takes a long time to generate the input.
Ideone demo
To understand why you had only 1 char in your Passwords:
Passwords = Alpha + I;
Alpha is a char, I is an int. Their sum is an int. This is converted to char when assigning to Passwords which is a string. So Passwords is now a string composed of only one char.
It's not clear what that actual line of code was supposed to do, so can't tell you what would have been the fix. Maybe you meant to append to Passwords. Then you should have written Passwords += Alpha + I.

Answer 2

The code below is an example of what I am trying to make. I did not make the code below, am just giving you and example of what am trying to do in the code above
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <unistd.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string password;
string Generated;
cout << "Password to find: ";
cin >> password;
char Alpha[]={'a'-1,'a','a','a','a','a','a','a','a','a'};
while( password.compare(Generated) != 0 )
{
Alpha[0]++;
for(int x=0;x<password.length();x++)
{
if (Alpha[x] == 'z'+1)
{
Alpha[x] = 'a';
Alpha[x + 1]++;
}
}
Generated=Alpha[password.length()-1];
for(int i=password.length()-2; i>=0 ; i-- )
Generated+= Alpha[i];
system("clear");
cout << "Trying: "<< Generated << endl;
}
system("clear");
sleep(1);
cout <<"Access Granted: "<< Generated << endl;
return 0;
}