Thread: Newbie please help me

Hi,

Please tell me what I am doing wrong.When I press A,B,C it just doesnt enter into switch case.why??
OUtput on the screen is "incorrct productcode entered.total is 0"

Actually,I want to find the total sales for entire week so should I put in while loop and keep counter 7 ???

Thankx in advance.
#include<iostream>

using std::cout;
using std::cin;
using std::endl;
int main()
{
int ans,qty,counter;
double prdA,prdB, prdC,saleA,saleB,saleC,total;
saleA=0,saleB=0,saleC=0,total=0;
prdA=2.98;
prdB=4.50;
prdC = 9.98;
counter=0;

cout<<"enter the product A-C "<<endl;
cin>>ans;


switch(ans)
{
case 'A':
case 'a':
{
cout<<"enter qty"<<endl;
cin>>qty;
saleA=prdA*qty;
cout<<"ur sale is"<<saleA<<endl;
break;
}

case 'B':
case 'b':
{
cout<<"enter qty"<<endl;
cin>>qty;
saleB=prdB*qty;
cout<<"ur sale is"<<saleB<<endl;
break;
}
case 'C':
case 'c':
{
cout<<"enter qty"<<endl;
cin>>qty;
saleC=prdC*qty;
cout<<"ur sale is"<<saleC<<endl;;
break;
}

default:
{
cout<<"incorrect productcode entered"<<endl;
break;
}
}


total = saleA+saleB+saleC;
cout<<"total is "<<total;
return 0;
}

Please guide me.....

Hi,
thanks for pointing me out for such a silly mistake.I converted it into char.
but my second query is now i want to find total sales for a entire week,so how to put it in while loop ?
thanks once again.

Actually, if you're dealing with chars, I doubt you can do it with a loop without a lot conversion to int and enums. You should just go through a bunch of times with the += operator.

Thank you all for replying my post.