My First If Code, Question? :P

Well I was goofing around in C++ today and I made my first IF code.

Code:

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    std::cout << "Please Enter 1 or 2: ";
    
    int a;
    std::cin >> a;
    std::cin.ignore();
    
    if (a == 1)
    {
          std::cout << "You Typed: 1";
    }
    
    if (a == 2)
    {
          std::cout << "You Typed: 2";
    }
    
    if (a > 2)
    {
        std::cout << "You Didn't Type 1 or 2!";
    }
    
    if (a < 1)
    {
        std::cout << "You Didn't Type 1 or 2!";
    }
    
    std::cin.get();
    return 0;
}

What it's supposed to do is see if you typed 1 or 2 and if you didn't it would tell you so. I wan'ted to know how to restart it all from the start if they didn't type 1 or 2? Can anyone give me some info on how I would go about doing that?

In Visual Basic the IF things where a lot easier for me,


(Sub)
If Blah = Blah Then
(Statement)
End If
(Or ElseIf or Else)
End Sub

In someways the C++ seems faster to me, but really its all the same in code so far for me, since in VB the sub parts are typed for you. Just need to get use to the "{" "}" and the "( )" things in C++.

Thanks!

Loops
http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson3.html

yeah, you could put everything into an infinite loop, i do this often. take a look:

Code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;  //so you dont haave to always type std::(cout/cin)

int main()
{
    while(1)    //This is a while() loop, it runs what is in the {} 
                //until its condition () is false or it is terminated, 
                //while(1) is always true, we call this an infinite loop.
    {
        cout << "Please Enter 1 or 2(Type 0 to Exit): ";
        
        int a;
        cin >> a;
        cin.ignore();
        
        if (a == 1)
        {
            cout << "You Typed: 1";
            cin.ignore();      //pauses
            continue;          //this will continue the loop
        }
        
        if (a == 2)
        {
            cout << "You Typed: 2";
            cin.ignore();
            continue;
        }
        
        //i added the exit option in, a while loop like this will go on forever
        if(a==0)
        {
            cout<<"Press Enter to Exit...";
            cin.ignore();
            break;     //break does as it implies, breaks a loop
        }
            
        if (a > 2)
        {
            cout << "You Didn't Type 1 or 2!";
            cin.ignore();
            continue;
        }
        
        if (a < 1)
        {
            cout << "You Didn't Type 1 or 2!";
            cin.ignore();
            continue;
        }
        
    }    
    cin.get();
    return 0;
}

Good Luck!

PS-Try to type in 1.5 or 1.2 What happens? Nothing! You could do a couple things here. Heres what i would do, replace:

Code:

...
        if (a > 2)
        {
            cout << "You Didn't Type 1 or 2!";
            cin.ignore();
            continue;
        }
        
        if (a < 1)
        {
            cout << "You Didn't Type 1 or 2!";
            cin.ignore();
            continue;
        }
...

With:

Code:

...
if(a!=1 || a!=2)
{
       cout<<"You didnt type 1 or 2!"
       cin.ignore();
       continue;
}
...

The != means doesnt equal, and the || means or.

Good Luck!

Check out the link, there are a couple other kinds of loops.

Alright, thanks your all such a big help!