Thread: For Loop Question, Please Help!

My IDE is Dev 4.0

I'm trying to figure out this for loop. It is supposed to count until the user terminates the loop but it's not working! Typing in "N" makes it go and I think it supposed to stop after each number, not keep going even if you type in "Y".

Code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
      int count;
      int response;

      for (count = 1; response != 'N'; count++)
{
    cout << count << endl;
    cout << "Continue (Y/N): ";
    cin >> response;
    cin.get();
} 
cin.get();
return 0;
}

Also could someone explain the "cin.get();" thing to me? What exactly does it mean? It is not what is screwing this up but I'm just curious. As far as I've figured it out, it goes before "return 0;" and after any "cin >> something;". Thank you.

Code Tags.

char response;

Code:

char response;

not too good on C++, so check with others regarding security ramifications.

I think this is the first time I actually saw someone try to use a for loop for prompting a response like this.

1. Why don't use a do/while loop?

2. Why do you need count?

3. Do you have any references to help you? book, teacher, etc.

Mr. C.

> Also could someone explain the "cin.get();" thing to me?
You press 2 keys
Y
<enter>

cin >> response; reads your Y or N
cin.get(); just throws away your newline

>it just keeps going forever.
Read the first reply and make that change. operator>> is type independent, it determines how to act based on the type of the object you give it. When you give it an int, it will try to read a number. If it reads a character such as 'Y' or 'N', it'll fail because that isn't a number. It doesn't extract the offending character, so you continue to fail on it. The cin.get() call also fails because cin is in a failure state, so you have an infinite loop or whenever signed integer overflow causes undefined behavior, then I can't specify what will happen.