Thread: Loops

well for number use an array;


http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson8.html


As for the loop:

do
{
cout <<"Enter employee number: ";
cin >> number;
while (number > 0)
{
cout.precision(2);
cout.setf(ios::fixed | ios::showpoint);

cout <<"Enter gross pay: $";
cin>> grosspay;
cout <<"Enter State tax: $";
cin >> statetax;
cout <<"Enter fica: $"<<"\t";
cin >>fica;

cout <<endl;
}

while (number != 0);

Given the constraints of your assignment, the only thing to do that I can see is to store the data into one long string. That is, concatenate each new employee number plus financial data to a single string.

This will require some type of delimiting in order to produce a "line feed" between employees in the display code not to mention the separation of data elements for each.

This will make your loop rather bulky, but, off the top of my head, seems workable. (Just running an idea up the flagpole here...)

P.S. On a 32-bit Windows system, a string may occupy well over four billion bytes, so the number of employees shouldn't pose a real problem.

P.P.S. You needn't include setprecision() and 'fixed' within the loop. Once set, you must unset them to implement a change. 'setwidth()' is the rascal that holds for only one element.

-Skipper

Are you supposed to use a FILE???

Thought about that one, too.

(Actually, my first thought. Unfortunately, all we've got to work with is what we don't have to work with. We need more input! )

-Skipper