Thread: Help counting people in my array.

  1. #1
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    Help counting people in my array.

    I wrote this program and so far so good but now I have to be able to count how many 1's, 2's, 3's, and 4's were entered. I am at a complete loss of where to begin. Could someone help me get started?

    Code:
    #include "stdafx.h"
    using namespace std;
    
    int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
    {
    	const int People = 5;
    	int i, PeopleTypes[People];
    
    cout << "Enter 1 for Infant, 2 for Child, 3 for Teenager, or 4 for Adult\n";
    cout << "for each person that attended the school function.\n\n";
    
    	for(i=0; i<People; i++)
    	{
    		cout << "Person #" << i+1 << ": ";
    		cin  >> PeopleTypes[i];
    	if (PeopleTypes[i]>4 || PeopleTypes[i]<1)
    	{
    	cout << "This is invalid input!\n\n";
    	
    	}
    	if (PeopleTypes[i]<0)
    		break;
    	}
    	
    
    	
    }

  2. #2
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    I think you don't want to input to PeopleTypes[i] but to increment PeopleTypes[n] if n is within the bounds. As I understand PeopleTypes is an array of counters.

    Also, you probably want to loop more than People times, for example until a negative number is entered.
    Last edited by anon; 10-17-2007 at 04:20 PM.
    I might be wrong.

    Thank you, anon. You sure know how to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away.
    Quoted more than 1000 times (I hope).

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    You're going about the loop you have the wrong way. You are looping once per person time. You should be looping while the user inputs a number greater than 0.

    Then, inside that loop you should be counting how many times the user enters each person type.

    Does that make sense?

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    It makes sense but how can I make it loop like that?

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    You need to loop while the user enters a number greater than 0.

    Now turn that phrase into code.

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