Thread: Stuck in an infinite while loop. Help.

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    Stuck in an infinite while loop. Help.

    Code:
    #include <iostream.h>
    #include <conio.h>
    
    
    
    int main(){
    
    int firstyer = 0;
    
          cout<< "Enter -1 to stop program ";
          cin>>firstyer;
    while (firstyer != -1)
    
          if (firstyer==1600|| firstyer == 2000||firstyer== 1756||firstyer ==1832||firstyer==544||firstyer == 3380)
          {
          cout<<"The year is a leap year"<<endl;
          }
          else if (firstyer==1700 || firstyer == 2033||firstyer==1962)
          {
          cout<< "The year is not a leap year"<<endl ;
          }
          else
          {
          cout<< "Number not applicable, enter a valid year.  1600, 1700, 2000, 1756, 2033, 1962, 1832, 544, 3380 only"<<endl;
          }
    
          cout<< "Enter -1 to stop program ";
          cin>>firstyer;
         getch();
         return 0;
    }
    I get an infinite message after one of the IFs is true. I need it to repeat the loop by asking to enter a new number after one of the IF statements is true until -1 is entered.

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    You didn't put braces around the code you want to be inside the loop. Just indenting it isn't enough. How Pythonic of you

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    first remove the .h's in the include statements, as this is c++ not c. next, your while loop needs block braces around the code block you want to loop, which is why you get an infinite loop now. it only reads the input once then keeps looping, but the value is never changed (inputted again).

    also having conio makes it windows-only code.

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    Wow I can't believe I didn't see that. Thnx guys. I need more practice in recognizing stupid mistakes like this.

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    No matter how much practice you get, you will still always make stupid mistakes, just with practice you stop making the ones that are easy to find

    Last stupid mistake I made was yesterday, used a pointer to a double as an input to scanf which was recieving a flloat and couldnt figure out why every value I got was printing out as zero, lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by abachler View Post
    just with practice you stop making the ones that are easy to find
    No, you won't. You'll just find them faster.
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    A bit of both, I think. I certainly don't type ('s instead of {'s by mistake, but I do pass the wrong parameters to realloc() (sorry about the language) on occasion. And with practise you do find and fix errors more quickly, for sure.
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    Confusing ( and { is so hard on a German keyboard that I don't think I've ever done that in my life
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    Mmm hmm, it's tough on an ordinary qwerty one too. I don't think I've ever done it. But I've seen some beginning posters do it . . . and even an advanced OpenGL progammer once.
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    > Confusing ( and { is so hard on a German keyboard that I don't think I've ever done that in my life
    I have bad memories of trying to write code on a Spanish keyboard (being used to a UK keyboard). Either the braces or parentheses were so far off "normal" to make writing code a really tricky task
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    It's the braces, I think. The parentheses are merely one to the side. (If the Spanish follows the general continental European base layout.)
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