Thread: Need help with break in do while loop

Hi All,
I'm wondering if anyone can tell me where to put the "break" statement in the code below. I'm trying to make it so the program will keep asking a user to input a positive integer and then output it's factorial. However, the first iteration gets caught up in a continual loop. For example, instead of outputing the factorial of the integer 4, for example, just once and then prompting the user to input another integer I just get the output such as:

4! = 24
4! = 24
4! = 24
4! = 24
4! = 24
...etc. continuing on forever.

Can anyone help? Thank you in advance! Joe

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
 
int main()
{
// Program calculates factorial of user inputted integer
 
   long int x,y,result;
 
   x=-1;
// Controls for negative integer inputted; can only accept positive integer
   printf("Please enter a positive integer:"); 
   scanf("%d",&x);

   do {
   
// Calculates the factorial
   result = 1;
   for (y=x;y>=1;y--)
	 result = result*y;
   printf("%d! = %d\n",x,result);
   } while (x!=0);

	   printf("Negative integer inputted, Please Try Again!!!\n");

   return 0;
}

HI Zacs7,
Thanks for the assistance. I'm too much of a beginner to even understand what you're talking about much less where I'd put the counter statement. Can you help more in terms of which mistakes I should correct and where to put a break statement? Thanks again.
Joe