Thread: a little help needed

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    Unhappy a little help needed

    i am currently stuck on a problem with this program it works ok as far as the point of coins inserted, then it just keeps looping. any ideas?
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    found it. In the future you should ask smarter questions than "debug this for me", but I was in a good mood.

    you defined counter:

    int counter = 0;

    Then inside a while loop you increment it till it equals 5.
    When this code runs for the second time, it's still 5 because it's defined outside the loop -
    so the nested while loop won't run at all and thus is never checked if the name and pin match.

    Solution: either define the counter inside the loop, or zero it before you check for the right pin:

    >> counter = 0;
    while (counter <= 4)

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    Note that you can omit the .h extensions of C++ standard headers, and a good compiler will warn you about that.

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    cheers mate, just got really annoyed looking at the code for the last few hours. thanks for
    your help

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    Code:
    if (coin != 0&&coin != 5&&coin != 10&&coin != 20&& coin != 50)
    I haven't tried to compile or test it, but the above doesn't look right (have no idea as to whether or not it has something to do with your loop problem.

    Is that suppose to read;

    if(coin!=0&&coin || coin! = 5&&coin etc...)?


    *edit, apparently that wasn't a problem. It still looks screwy to me though-

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    Actually, it took me only a couple of minutes;p
    About what the old man here said: I'm curious too what it's supposed to do, if you want to explain this maybe I could help you make up a smarter if-condition, but if this just works for you, well...

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