Looping Help?

[tims]

Hi, I'm working on an easy assignment only I can't get it working properly. All the program needs to do is accept the user-input value and display a message that many times. What I'm having trouble with is the syntax for getting the message to display x amount of times per the user-inputted variable. I'm sure this is an easy solution but I'm going nuts trying to figure it out. Any help is greatly appreciated.


Oh and I'm working in C++ 2003.

[gpraghuram]

Hi, I'm working on an easy assignment only I can't get it working properly. All the program needs to do is accept the user-input value and display a message that many times. What I'm having trouble with is the syntax for getting the message to display x amount of times per the user-inputted variable. I'm sure this is an easy solution but I'm going nuts trying to figure it out. Any help is greatly appreciated.


Oh and I'm working in C++ 2003.

With cin the syntax is the same except you have to use a array variable to get the inputted string.
Can you show us the code what you have written, then ww will be happy to help you

raghuram

[tims]

With cin the syntax is the same except you have to use a array variable to get the inputted string.
Can you show us the code what you have written, then ww will be happy to help you

raghuram

Thanks for the fast reply. I'm at home right now and don't have the full project with me but I think is the closest we got to it working even though its not even close to being right.

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()

{
	int counter = 0;

	cout << "Enter the number of hellos.\n" << "    ";
	cin >> counter;

	while ( counter < 20)
	{
		counter++;
		cout << "Hello.\n";
	}

	cout << "\nCounter: " << counter << ".\n";

	return 0;
}

I'm pretty sure what I need is a statement saying something like 'display hello ((counter) times)' but I can't seem to figure out the c++ version of it.

[gpraghuram]

Thanks for the fast reply. I'm at home right now and don't have the full project with me but I think is the closest we got to it working even though its not even close to being right.

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()

{
	int counter = 0;

	cout << "Enter the number of hellos.\n" << "    ";
	cin >> counter;

	while ( counter < 20)
	{
		counter++;
		cout << "Hello.\n";
	}

	cout << "\nCounter: " << counter << ".\n";

	return 0;
}

I'm pretty sure what I need is a statement saying something like 'display hello ((counter) times)' but I can't seem to figure out the c++ version of it.

R u looking for a function which can print the string the number of times you specify?
If yes then there is no function of that sort in C++.
You have to loop to print the required string

Raghuram

[tims]

R u looking for a function which can print the string the number of times you specify?
If yes then there is no function of that sort in C++.
You have to loop to print the required string

Raghuram

What I need it to do is go through the loop and display the message on the screen a certain number of times. For example the command prompt comes up and asks 'How many hellos do you want' and the user types in 3 then the program should display 'Hello' 3 times.

[Simonius]

I don't get why you do while(counter<2 0)

Why don't you just do:

for(i=0;i<HowManyHellos;++i)
       cout<<"Hello"<<endl;

Basicly what this coding does is set i (the variable that's used as a counter) to 0,
do the loop while your counter is lower then the times you want hello to be displayed and then increment the counter.

The code line just prints Hello followed by a new line.

You could use while(i<HowMany Hellos)
But then you'd have to increment i in your while loop.

[tims]

I don't get why you do while(counter<2 0)

Why don't you just do:

for(i=0;i<HowManyHellos;++i)
       cout<<"Hello"<<endl;

Basicly what this coding does is set i (the variable that's used as a counter) to 0,
do the loop while your counter is lower then the times you want hello to be displayed and then increment the counter.

The code line just prints Hello followed by a new line.

You could use while(i<HowMany Hellos)
But then you'd have to increment i in your while loop.

Thank you very much, that worked great. I had tried the for loop in my program at school but couldn't get the arguments in the parentheses right.