The following loop will never terminate and I can't for the life of me work out why not.
birthmonth=7 / thismonth=10
I put the cout<<y; to try to see but it just continually prints '9'.
Please help I am losing all my hair!Code:if (birthmonth < thismonth) { for(int y=(birthmonth + 1);y = (thismonth-1);y++) { cout<<y; daysold = daysold + monthdays[y]; } }
> y = (thismonth-1)
Mixing up assignment and comparison (again).
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
it is so obvious when explained - sorry for wasting your time.
Both VC++ and GCC will (usually) generate warnings for this. What compiler are you using?
Also, you should consider learning to use a debugger. They are essential in programming and easily allows you to pick up mistakes such as this!
Originally Posted by Adak
I am using Code::Blocks; and yes I would like to learn to use the debugger supplied with it - can you recommend any books on the subject as I have looked around and there doesn't appear to be much info on actually using them. Up to now I get by by putting thinks like cout<<y; to watch what is happening and in this case I could see the loop was just continual but couldn't see why - having used = as an assigner and a comparison for most of my programming life it is hard to remember that C++ is different though I think it may have sunk in now.
