Hello,
Like many people on these boards I am new to C++ programming, and also like many, I have come across a problem for which I'm having difficulty finding the answer.
I've had a check around the boards and other sites and it seems quite a familiar problem - the one whereby a program closes before you get to see the result. Well I'm having a similar problem.
After reading a few tutorials I decided to try to write a program which computes powers of integers. The user enters 'a' and 'b' and the program will return a^b. I thought about using a for loop to do this. Here is what I came up with
Code:
#include <iostream>
#include <conio.h>
using namespace std;
int main(){
int val;
int pow;
int res = 1;
cout << "Please enter your number: ";
cin >> val;
cin.ignore();
cout << "Please enter your power: ";
cin >> pow;
cin.ignore();
for(int i=0; i<pow; i++){
res = res * val;
return res;
}
cout << "The answer is " << res;
getch();
return 0;
}
Now the program lets the user enter the number and the power but once you hit return to get the result...poof!...the program closes. I have tried solutions such as cin.get() and getch() but to no avail. I would greatly appreciate some help on the matter. Even if you only tell me where I'm going wrong.
Thanks in advance
Stonehambey