Help with a payroll program

I'm trying to make a payroll program, however I don't really know where to go from the point that i am at. In a .dat file created in notepad, i have entered the employee number, their pay rate and the hours that they have worked, seperating each of them by a space and giving each employee their own line. I want it to calculate the o/t hours and gross pay and print everything out with headings and a total amount of hours and such at the bottom, without prompting the user.

Thanks

Go read the rules, we wont do your homework. Show us some code and effort and then post.

Have you written the code to read a single record from the file? Once you can do that, it's a simple matter to read multiple records with a loop. Formatting the output is equally simple when you have the data.

i guess that is what i'm trying to say that i don't understand

have you tried doing anything? post whatever you have done so far.

sorry, but here is the code i have

Code:

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using namespace std;

int main()
{
  int    employee;
  double overTimeThreshold,
          rate,
          hours;
 
  cout << "Employee No.\t";
  cout << "Pay Rate\t";
  cout << "Hours\t";
  cout << "O/T Hours\t";
  cout << "Gross Pay\t";
 
  ifstream project2;
  project2.open("project2.dat");

int overtime;
int empNum;
project2>>overtime;
project2>>empNum;
while(project2)
{

project2>>empNum;
project2>>payRate;
project2>>hoursWorked;
}
  return 0;
}

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Please edit your post and place a / after the [ and before CODE at the end of your code to get the effect desired for posting code on this board

Then take a piece of paper and a pencil and write down all the steps you need to do BEFORE you try to write code. It may be as simple as this:

declare ifstream
open ifstream associated with file to read

declare variables for:
employee number
pay rate
hours worked
overtime hours
overtime pay rate
total pay


while there is data in the file do the following:
read in employee number
read in pay rate
read in hours worked
calculate overtime hours
determine total pay = pay for std hours + pay for overtime hours
print desired data to screen
repeat process for next employee


Now try to elaborate on each of those tasks writing pseudocode
Then change the pseudocode into code.
Do this for every project you do and you'll write better code, faster.

Good luck.

I really appreciate your help and here is the code that I have now

Code:

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#include <fstream>  //Allows you to read and write data to and from files.
#include <iostream>  //Needed for cin, cout.
#include <stdlib.h>  //Needed for system().
#include <iomanip>  //Needed to control printing.

using namespace std;

int main()
{
  int empNum;
  double overTime,
          overTimePay,
          grossPay,
          rate,
          hoursWorked,
          overTimeHours,
          overTimeThreshold = 40.00;
 
  cout << "Employee No.\t";
  cout << "Pay Rate\t";
  cout << "Hours\t";
  cout << "O/T Hours\t";
  cout << "Gross Pay\t";
 
  ifstream project2;
  project2.open("project2.dat");

  project2>>overTime;
  project2>>empNum;

  while(project2){
      project2>>empNum;
      project2>>rate;
      project2>>hoursWorked;
        if(hoursWorked <= overTimeThreshold){
          overTimeHours = 0.00;
          grossPay = (hoursWorked * rate);
        }
        else{
          overTimeHours = hoursWorked - overTimeThreshold;
          grossPay = (overTimeThreshold* rate)+ (1.5(hoursWorked - overTimeThreshold));
        }
      project2>>empNum;
  }
 
  return 0;
}

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the compiler is still picking up an error in the last else statement and i can't find it, so it won't compile the .exe file for me.

if i took it right u want to multiply 1.5 by hoursWorked - overTimeThreshold, so i added the *....

Code:

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grossPay = (overTimeThreshold* rate)+ (1.5*(hoursWorked - overTimeThreshold));

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BTW, compiled like that in Dev C++.

ok thanks, i changed the 1.5 to "overTimeBonus" and I found the other error to be a capitalization mistake. The problem is now I don't know how to output the data that i am reading from the text file.

the text file looks lie
40.0
12345 6.79 40.00
20034 10.00 45.00
23328 8.75 62.50

try a board search on the infile and outfile functions, i think they will help you out.