Could someone help me with this for loop I wrote?

[English_Fire]

I've just started C++ this week, and I have an assignment where you have to create a console application that asked the user how many numbers they would like to sum together, and then loops that many times, taking in a number and adding it to the sum each time. This is what I have -

int main()
{


	int repeat_amount, sum = 0, entered_number;


	cout << "Enter the amount of numbers you wish to add together: ";
	cin >> repeat_amount;


	for (int number = 0;number == repeat_amount; number ++) {
		cout << "Enter a number: ";
		cin >> entered_number;
		sum = sum + entered_number;
	}


	cout << sum;
}

The result is it doesn't allow me to enter any numbers except the first one. This is what I get when I run it -

Enter the amount of numbers you wish to add:
(then i enter a number and hit enter)
0Press any key to continue...

[manasij7479]

Write
for (int number = 0;number < repeat_amount; number ++)

[English_Fire]

I'll try that in a second, let me close out of this other program I started. Thanks for the response.

Edit: Okay, that fixed it. That was such a small error and I had to ask for help, haha. But thanks man, I appreciate it very much.

[meterpreter]

Can U explain why number == repeat_amount' statement is not correct?

[manasij7479]

Can U explain why number == repeat_amount' statement is not correct?

Because, that does not evaluate to be true for the required no. of times.

[Elkvis]

a for() loop repeats while the second parameter is true. if you initialize number to zero, it will not be equal to repeat_amount on the first iteration of the for loop, so it won't even run once.

[meterpreter]

Cleared! th@nks for reply.