Question concerning functions

I'm currently on the functions tutorial, but there's one thing that I just can't understand how to do (which it doesn't explain how, but says that it's possible and a good idea to use). How would I go about making a function to actually repeat a certain block of code a certain amount of times? The only type of functions that the tutorial explains is a function that will accept two arguments, and return an integer. Also note that I'm not asking how to do this for a specific program; I just need to know how I'd go about doing this.

Also, if possible, please write out both in code and explaining it to me so I can look at the structure of the code if I don't understand something.

Have you checked out loops yet?

You just call the function multiple times:

Code:

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#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int mult ( int x, int y );

int main()
{
  int x;
  int y;
 
  cout<<"Please input two numbers to be multiplied: ";
  cin>> x >> y;
  cin.ignore();
  cout<<"The product of your two numbers is "<< mult ( x, y ) <<"\n";

  cout<<"Please input two numbers to be multiplied: ";
  cin>> x >> y;
  cin.ignore();
  cout<<"The product of your two numbers is "<< mult ( x, y ) <<"\n";

  cout<<"Please input two numbers to be multiplied: ";
  cin>> x >> y;
  cin.ignore();
  cout<<"The product of your two numbers is "<< mult ( x, y ) <<"\n";

  cin.get();
}

int mult ( int x, int y )
{
  return x * y;
}

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or, if you know for loops:

Code:

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#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int mult ( int x, int y );

int main()
{
  int x;
  int y;

  for (int i = 0; i < 40; ++i)
  { 
    cout<<"Please input two numbers to be multiplied: ";
    cin>> x >> y;
    cin.ignore();
    cout<<"The product of your two numbers is "<< mult ( x, y ) <<"\n";
    cin.get();
  }
}

int mult ( int x, int y )
{
  return x * y;
}

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K, thanks. Yeah, I've done the loops tutorial, I just forgot it already >.<.

Kind of confused though; when I typed up that code it won't loop regardless of the fact that it looks almost exactly like yours (the only differences are spaces between code).

The code I'm confused about:

Code:

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#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int mult ( int x, int y );

int main()
{
    int x;
    int y;
    for ( int x=0; x < 73; x++ )
    {
    cout<<"Please input two numbers to be multiplied.\n";
    cin>> x >> y;
    cin.ignore();
    cout<<"The product of your two numbers is "<< mult ( x, y ) <<"\n";
    cin.get();
    }
}
int mult ( int x, int y )
{
          return x * y;
}

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Any idea why it won't loop?

x is your look index, but you also use it in your loop. Use some other variable for the loop index.