Thread: A simple 'else' without a previous 'if'

Hi all hope everyone is well I just started to learn c++ so I'm sorry this has been asked a million times before and I've been through half of google but it seems I'm too stupid to work this out! Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong?

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstdio>


using namespace std;


int main(int nNumberofArgs, char* pszArgs[])
{


{
    int nAge;


    cout << "Enter Age:";
    cin >> nAge;


{
if (nAge < 0)






    cout << "Age can't be negative; using 0." << endl;
    nAge = 0;
}


else
{
    cout << "Age of " << nAge << " entered" << endl;
}




}


return 0;


}

1.Line 13 and 42 are not needed. (Though not wrong.)
2.Interchange Lines 21 and 22.
3.Indent better.

Btw, a little simple problem with your logic..the output isn't printed when the input is < 0.

Wow that was simple many thanks! Hmm there to start and end/or wrap statements and functions right?

I'm just working through this "beginning C++ for dummies book" so I really am a super beginner

Think of something inside of curly braces as like a smaller program. It's generally roughly referred to by names such as "block" and "scope" (roughly), but code inside a pair of curly braces is kind of like it's own little box that stuff gets run inside. As such, there's what's inside the box, what's outside the box, and what's being moved in and out of the box. Sometimes the box is itself inside of a larger box, and there's the matter of who has a key to the lock on the box.