Thread: Factorial Program Not Printing Answer!?

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    Unhappy Factorial Program Not Printing Answer!?

    I am trying to create a factorial program, to release on my site under the CPL. I have tried switching the code around in various different ways, but I cannot get the .exe to print the answer (variable), although the code breaks!! Could you give me some advice? The code is below. Thanks in advance!!!!

    Code:
    main()
    { 
    int i;
    int n;
    int z;
    scanf("%d",&i);
    z = i - 1;
    for
    	(n = i * z; z>0);
    {
    if (z = 1);
    break;
    putchar ('\n');
    putchar ('\n');
    printf("Your Answer is %d",n);
    putchar ('\n');
    putchar ('\n');
    system ("pause");
    }
    }
    P.S.- I ran out of time to fix the syntax error(s) in this set up, but the other simular and error free programs did the same thing: get to the printf and skip the variable

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    You breaking out of the loop before printing anything.

    Either remove the break and see all the process or move your printout out of the loop altogether.

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    okay, thanks for the response! But how will the loop stop before 0!?

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    Code:
    for
    	(n = i * z; z>0);
    {
    if (z = 1);
    break;
    }
    
    
    putchar ('\n');
    putchar ('\n');
    printf("Your Answer is %d",n);
    putchar ('\n');
    putchar ('\n');
    system ("pause");
     return 0; }
    You need to fix that for loop too....

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    ran out of time to fix the syntax error(s) in this set up
    Rude.

    PLEASE, clean up .

    This looks bad:
    Code:
    for	(n = i * z; z>0);
    As does this:
    Code:
    if (z = 1);

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