Settiing a loop to skip by number input

[Extropian]

I'm a little confused, I know how to get input form a user but how do I use it as a variable for a loop?
What I need to is ask for a number and if its 6 it will output 6, 12, 18..and so on and if its 7 it will output 7, 14, 21...etc or whatever number they put in, all the way to 150.
I've tried a few things and normally would ask but I'm getting frustrated,
any help you can offer would be appreciated.
Thanks,
extro

[mitakeet]

Lets see your code.

[Extropian]

This has a few obvious errors but my hope is that I should be using a while statement.
The program asks if I were to open x mailboxes out of 150 which mailboxes are open?

#include <stdio.h>

main ()

{
  int	boxes;

  int	open; /*which boxes are open */

  int skipped; /* number being skipped by */
   
  printf ("How many mail boxes does he skip?\n");
  
  scanf("%d" , &boxes);


  while (boxes <= 150){
	  open = boxes;

	  skipped = skipped + boxes;
  }
  printf("The following mailboxes are open %d\n" , open);
	

	return 0;

}

[mitakeet]

I am not really sure what you are trying to do, but you have not initilalized open or skipped, which means you will get whatever crap happens to be on the stack at the time. Additionally, you never increment boxes, so your loop will never terminate.

BTW, this "skipped = skipped + boxes;" is more clearly written "skipped += boxes;". Also, you need to declare that main() returns an int.

[Extropian]

ya I changed my code a bit:

#include <stdio.h>

main ()

{
  int	open; /*which boxes are open */

  int	skipped; /* number being skipped by */
   
  printf ("How many mail boxes does he skip?\n");
  
  scanf("%d" , &open);


  while (open <= 150){
	  open = skipped;

	  skipped = open + 1;
  
  printf("The following mailboxes are open %d\n" , skipped);
  }

	return 0;

}

I'm getting there, this is supposed to output something like this if the user inputs 3

1 = closed 2 = closed 3 = open 4= closed 5 = closed 6 = open ...and so on to 150

[mitakeet]

I am guessing, but is this what you want?

#include <stdio.h>

int main (){
    int	open=0, skip;
    int	cnt = 0, skipped=0;
       
    printf ("How many mail boxes does he skip?\n");
    scanf("%d" , &skip);

    while (cnt < 150){
        cnt++;
        if (cnt % skip == 0){
            open++;
            printf("%d = closed\n", cnt);
        }else{
            skipped++;
            printf("%d = open\n", cnt);
        }
    }
    printf("Opened a total of %d boxes\nSkipped a total of %d boxes\n", open, skipped);

    return 0;
}

[Extropian]

his is it mostly, I just have format the output into nice neat columns thanks, you've been a big help, you have no idea how confused I was getting lol