Thread: Little help with this please...

Ok, this is for a class. We were required to write a program to calculate mileage reimbursement for a salesperson at a rate of $0.45 per mile. The program has to take the starting and ending mileage as inputs and then display distance traveled and total reimbursement. I have writen this and it compiles fine, but when I run it it quits out half way through. Bare with me, I'm pretty new at this so I might have made some stupid mistake, but can anyone help me out and maybe show me what I have wrong?

Code:

#include "stdafx.h"

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
	float miles, odometer1, odometer2, reimbursement, rate;
	printf("MILEAGE REIMBURSEMENT CALCULATOR.\n");
	printf("Enter the beginning odometer reading:>");
	scanf("%f", &odometer1);
	printf("\nEnter the ending odometer reading:>");
	scanf("%f", &odometer2);
	miles = odometer2 - odometer1;
	printf("\nSalesperson traveled %6.2f", miles);
	rate = 0.45;
	reimbursement = miles * rate;
	printf("\nTotal owed reimbursement is %6.2f", reimbursement);

	getchar();
	return 0;
}

First, of all, learn to use code tags.

That'll help you get help much, MUCH faster.

And you say it quits midway through. What is that last thing you see ?

Add another getchar() at the end. It's just closing cause the first getchar() is taking the '\n' left in your stdin. The second will wait for input.

You could add a "\n" to the end of scanf() format strings to consume additional whitespace. Or use fgets().