Help with While Loop and array

I have to make a program for a voting machine for a presidential election as part of a school assignment. my question is that i'm using a while loop and numerous arrays. In the while loop , the data i type in gets overwritten every time the while loop executes in the loop. How to i switch the data location from for example i[0] to i[1] when the loop runs for the second time.

If anyone could also tell me how to do proportional representation too, could you let me know.


Thanks

We have no way of knowing what's going wrong in your code unless you show us your code.

Code:

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while(i!=5)
    {
     
         
         
                printf("2011 Presidential Election \n");
           
                system("pause");
             
                printf("\nPlease Enter a vote for candidate1 \n");
                printf("Enter 1 for first choice \n");
                printf("Enter 2 for 2nd choice \n");
                printf("Enter 3 for 3rd choice \n");
                printf("Enter 0 for no vote \n");
                       
                scanf("%d",&mg[0]);
               
                printf("Please Enter a vote for candidate2 \n");
                printf("Enter 1 for first choice \n");
                printf("Enter 2 for 2nd choice \n");
                printf("Enter 3 for 3rd choice \n");
                printf("Enter 0 for no vote \n");
                       
                scanf("%d",&da[0]);
               
                printf("Please Enter a vote for candidate3 \n");
                printf("Enter 1 for first choice \n");
                printf("Enter 2 for 2nd choice \n");
                printf("Enter 3 for 3rd choice \n");
                printf("Enter 0 for no vote \n");
                       
                scanf("%d",&no[0]);
               
                printf("Please Enter a vote for candidate4 \n");
                printf("Enter 1 for first choice \n");
                printf("Enter 2 for 2nd choice \n");
                printf("Enter 3 for 3rd choice \n");
                printf("Enter 0 for no vote \n");
                       
                scanf("%d",&gal[0]);
               
                printf("Please Enter a vote for candidate5 \n");
                printf("Enter 1 for first choice \n");
                printf("Enter 2 for 2nd choice \n");
                printf("Enter 3 for 3rd choice \n");
                printf("Enter 0 for no vote \n");
                       
                scanf("%d",&hig[0]);
               
                printf("Please Enter a vote for candidate6 \n");
                printf("Enter 1 for first choice \n");
                printf("Enter 2 for 2nd choice \n");
                printf("Enter 3 for 3rd choice \n");
                printf("Enter 0 for no vote \n");
                       
                scanf("%d",&dav[0]);
               
                printf("Please Enter a vote for candidate7 \n");
                printf("Enter 1 for first choice \n");
                printf("Enter 2 for 2nd choice \n");
                printf("Enter 3 for 3rd choice \n");
                printf("Enter 0 for no vote \n");
                       
                scanf("%d",&mit[0]);
               
               
               
                printf("\n Thank you for voting!! \n");
               
             
               
                system("pause");
             
                (i++);
                mg[0]+= 1;
               
              system("cls");   
             
             
             
             
    }   
        printf("%d,%d,%d,%d", mg[0]);

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ok here's the part I am talking about, what do i do to get mg[0] to change to mg[1] on the loop and so on to mg[2] and mg[3]

Use a variable instead of hardcoding the array index:

Code:

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        int ray[5] = { 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 };
        int i = 0;
        while (ray[i]) {
                printf("%d\n", ray[i]);
                i++;
        }

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Thanks MK27, much appreciated. got it working