Thread: Barchart and unfamiliar compiling errors

Hello, I've attempted to create program that will create a bar chart of stars to look like this...

--------------------------------------
1: ***
2: *

and so on, it has to read the amount of 6 numbers from the command line and then print the correct amount of stars for each, each time I try and compile this program i get the errors

1. ANSI C++ forbids comparison between pointer and integer

2. In Function 'int main ( int, char**)

I am very very new to c++ and these are errors I have never come across before, and frankly the program I have been asked to write is way out of my depth.

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <assert.h>
using namespace std;


void main ( int n, char c)
  /*int main (int argc, char* argv [])*/
{
  int n [6];

  char c;
  int total = 0;

  
   if ( argc != 7 )
   {
      cerr << "Usage: ./a.out n1 n2 n3 n4 n5 n6\n" ;
      exit(1) ;
   }

while (  n  < 6)
    {
      cin >> n [c];
      c++;
    }
 for ( int i = 0; i < 6; i++)
   {
     n [i] = atoi ( argv [i+1]);
     assert (0 <= n [i] && n [i] <= 100);
   }

     for ( int i = 0; i < 6; i++)
       {
	 total += n [i];
       }
     cout <<"--------------------------------------------------/n"
          << total * c << "*";
}

This is what I have written, whether it even does what i want it to i do not know, but I gave my best shot.

any suggestions for why it keeps throwing up errors would be greatly appreciated.

thanks Karla.

oh okay, I'll have a go and see if I can get it to work now.

Thanks for replying :-)

void main ( int n, char c)
/*int main (int argc, char* argv [])*/

So why did you comment out the good one and replace it with a broken one?