Thread: I'm a newbie and I can't understand the errors in my program

  1. #16
    &TH of undefined behavior Fordy's Avatar
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    >>costa = 2.00;


    You are assigning a literal double to an int

    try costa = 2

  2. #17
    Mayor of Awesometown Govtcheez's Avatar
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    > and i still don't see how the total hours will be displayed?

    My mistake - they won't... I didn't read your problem close enough.

    The warnings are my fault - everything should be double to take care of fractions of an hour or fractions of a dollar
    Code:
    /* Calculate the total charges and the total hours for the 
    parking garage. */ 
    
    #include <iostream> 
    
    using std::cout; 
    using std::cin; 
    using std::endl; 
    
    void calculatecharges (double hoursa, double hoursb, double hoursc);
    
    int main() 
    { 
    double a, b, c; 
    
    cout<<"Enter the number of hours for CAR 1:"; 
    cin>>a; 
    
    cout<<"Enter the number of hours for CAR 2:"; 
    cin>>b; 
    
    cout<<"Enter the number of hours for CAR 3:"; 
    cin>>c; 
    
    calculatecharges(a, b, c);
    
    return 0; 
    } 
    
    void calculatecharges(double hoursa, double hoursb, double hoursc)
    {
       double costa = 0;   
       double costb = 0;
       double costc = 0;
       double totalhours = 0;
       double totalcost = 0;
      
       if(hoursa <= 3)
            costa = 2;
       else if (hoursa >= 17)
            costa = 10;
       else
            costa = 2 + ((hoursa-3) * .5);
    
       if(hoursb <= 3)
            costb = 2;
       else if (hoursb >= 17)
            costb = 10;
       else
            costb = 2 + ((hoursa-3) * .5);
    
       if(hoursc <= 3)
            costc = 2;
       else if (hoursc >= 17)
            costc = 10;
       else
            costc = 2 + ((hoursc-3) * .5);
        
        totalhours = hoursa + hoursb + hoursc;
        totalcost = costa + costb + costc;
        cout<<"CAR 1 CHARGES: "<<costa<<endl; 
        cout<<"CAR 2 CHARGES: "<<costb<<endl; 
        cout<<"CAR 3 CHARGES: "<<costc<<endl; 
        cout<<"TOTAL: "<<totalhours<< " hours, $"<<totalcost<<endl;
    }

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    THANKS SO MUCH! all of u have been such a great help. i think i'm gonna try to find C++ for dummies....i hear that's a good book to read. thanks again!

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    i don't know....i just ran the program, and it still doesn't work...i get this:

    /tmp/ccUHX0O8.o: In function `main':
    /tmp/ccUHX0O8.o(.text+0xa0): undefined reference to `calculatecharges(double, d'
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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    I am doing the same excercise...

    except i use for loops for my customer

    I tested your program and it runs fine. I don't know why u can't get it run. Make sure everything is right, header syntax etc...

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