Problem with an array

[Mervine, Keith]

Hi,
        I am working on a "daily lottery" system and wanted people to be
able to buy more than one ticket. (So I opted not to use the pfiles)

Right now Im saving the data in a file in this
format...(playerlottery.txt)

2
Thalor~
1 1 1             <--- for testing purposes I have the lotto always
generate 1 1 1 for now.
Grok~
9 6 7

(maxlottery)
(Name)~
(slot1) (slot2) (slot3)
(Name)~
(slot1) (slot2) (slot3)


I can load, save and add new ones to this file using a structure:

struct lottery_type
{
    char *    name;
    int       slot1;
    int       slot2;
    int       slot3;

};

The problem comes when I generate the lottery, somewhere in between the
loading of the lottery tickets and the comparison the array goes all
hooey....what am I doing wrong?

void do_generate(CHAR_DATA *ch)
{
  int num1, num2, num3;
  int pnum1, pnum2, pnum3;
  int i;
  LOTTERY_DATA *lottery;

  num1 = dice(1,1);
  num2 = dice(1,1);  //Testing all will be 0,9
  num3 = dice(1,1);

  for (i=0;i<maxLottery;i++)
  {
   pnum1 = lottery[i].slot1;
   pnum2 = lottery[i].slot2;
   pnum3 = lottery[i].slot3;

   if (pnum1 == num1 && pnum2 == num2 && pnum3 == num3)
   {
    info (ch,0,"We have a winner!\n\r");
   }
  }
}

Using GDB I look at pnum1 pnum2 and pnum3 and they turn into something
like 824193073


Any help would be ...well...helpful!

Thanks!

-K