Help with Names

Hi peeps,
Im trying to write a program that outputs the names of the service advisors ( 8 of them total ) and ask's for the number of surveys that are rated as 'A'.Then ask's for the total surveys to come up with the score. I know how to come up with the score.My problem is how do i get the program to store the names as constants and be able to ittorate through them one at a time and compute the score for each advisor?

output should be similar to this.

Please enter the number of surveys passed for Joe.

Please enter the Total surveys recieved for Joe.

The score for Joe is. // could leave this out until the end.

I need to be able to save the info for each advisor and ouput in a tabular format at the end of the last advisor.

This is going to be a console app. and it is not a homework assignment.
I am writing this using C++ visual.net IDE

Also I have just started to program so im not to advanced.So if we could keep it simple that would be great.

thx in advanced.
ben

Start with the question/answer series for just one adviser

Then put a
for ( i = 0 ; i < 8 ; i++ )
loop around it to make it happen 8 times

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Originally Posted by Salem

Start with the question/answer series for just one adviser

Then put a
for ( i = 0 ; i < 8 ; i++ )
loop around it to make it happen 8 times

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I have done that. but what i need it to do is lets say...

advisors = { "Mike", "Joe", "Rick" ect....}

I need it to ouput the names to the screen one at a time so that i can enter the info. and keep ittorating through them until the last advisor is reached. Having the ifno for each advisor stored so that at the end of input for the last advisor i can output something like this.

Code:

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                                          Scores
Advisor          Score
---------          --------
Mike              82.2

Joe                93.1
 
Rick                78.5

and so on.

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Put them in an array

Code:

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char *advisers[] = {
  "Mike",
  "Joe",
  "Rick"
};

// Then you do
cout << "Data for " << advisers[i] << endl;

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Ok thats what i was getting at. so use an array of chars.
thanks for the help Salem. Gonna try it out now.

Im still lost and I have searched to find the answer!
If i do this

Code:

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char *advisors[] = {"Mike", "Rick", "Joe" };

cout << *advisors << endl; // It just says Mike <- this is ok

// if i do this to try to get the next name

cout << *advisors[ 1 ] << endl; //it just gives me 'R'

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I need it to ittorate through the list of whole names and output them to the screen one at a time so I can enter the info for that paticular advisor.

Also if you could list the for( structure that i would use) to do this that would be great.
thx
ben

look at Salem's code, to get the second name exclude the *, otherwise it is just the adress of the first character of that word.

you don't need to dereference, just step through the array.

I got it to work this way. but now i have to figure out some how to get the "enter the score: " before the name.

Code:

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int main()
{

        char Names[3][5] = { {"Mike"} ,{"Rick"}, {"Joe"} };

        for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++ ) {

                for ( int j = 0; j < 4; j++ )  {
                        cout << Names[ i ] [ j ] ;
                }
                cout << endl;
        }

        return 0;
}

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Figured it out finaly.Here's the code for those interested.Any sugestions would be appreciated. this code is basicly just a Test but it demonstrates that it works.

Code:

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int main()
{
        int score = 0;
        int survey = 0;

        char Names[3][5] = { {"Mike"} ,{"Rick"}, {"Joe"} };

        for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++ ) {
                cout << "enter the score for ";

                for ( int j = 0; j < 5; j++ ) 
                        cout << Names[ i ] [ j ] ;
                cout << " " ;
                cin >> score;
                cout << "Enter the surveys passed for " << Names[ i ];
                cout << " ";
                cin >> survey;
                cout << endl;

        }

        return 0;
}

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Why do you use a loop here?
cout << Names[ i ] [ j ] ;

When 2 lines later, you output the whole name in one go like this
cout << "Enter the surveys passed for " << Names[ i ];

Both work, but the latter is so much more elegant.

Ya I know, I just figured that out lastnight. I was thinking that I had to have two for loops. One to get to the first index of
Names[ 0 ] <- and then another for loop to itorate through each character in the second Names[ 0 ] [ 0 ] <-. to spell the name out.

but i changed it to this and it works..not sure how it does but it does.

Code:

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nt main()
{
        int score = 0;
        int survey = 0;

                char Names[3][5] = { {"Mike"} ,{"Rick"}, {"Joe"} };

        for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++ ) {
                cout << "enter the score for "<< Names[ i ];
                cout << " " ;
                cin >> score;
                cout << "Enter the surveys passed for " << Names[ i ];
                cout << " ";
                cin >> survey;
                cout << endl;

        }

        return 0;
}

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>> ...not sure how it does ....

That's the "magic" of strings. The language/compiler allows you to treat a null terminated character array as a single object, rather than an array of char. Therefore you can do things like >> or << on a given string all at once, without having to loop through char by char. There are some special rules---like you can't compare two null terminated char arrays using the equals/not equals opertors, less than or greater than operators, but that can be overcome using STL string class (or some other string class) rather than a raw null terminated char array (sometimes called a C-style string instead of string); and >> only works for strings that don't contain whitespace, but that can be overcome using getline(), etc.


Bottom line, the concept of strings is very useful. But, if/when you use the term string, you need to be sure you understand what type of string you are using so you can follow the appropriate rules.

Thanks for that. Thats where I was messing up. I was treating it as indavidual characters instead of a string object. That makes it a little more clear now. Just now on chapter 4 array's.