Stop this loop!

[Al GIS]

I have most of this code figured out, but my professor wants us to include a counter. Here is the pseudocode:

Assign counter 10
While counter is greater than zero
Display "You should study loops carefully."
Display the value stored in the counter
Decrement the couunter
Endwhile

I took that to mean:

counter = 10;
while (counter > 0)
  {
  cout << "\nYou should study loops carefully.";
  cout << counter;
  ++counter;
  }
  pause ();
  return 0;

As you might be able to tell right away, the display begins counting "You should study loops carefully." many times with the counter next to it. If I remove line 6 then the display never reads no matter what I input. This isn't quite an infinite loop, but I don't think he wants this. My guess is I need to tinker with line 6 some more, but I'm out of ideas.

The rest of my while function looks great, but this last part is giving me fits.

Who wants a crack at this one?

Thanks!

[cire]

Al GIS wrote:

Decrement the couunter

++counter; is not a decrement.

[mk12345]

the ++counter increase the value first and then value is used.
in this case the value of counter will remain greater than 0 so it running infinite loop.

[Al GIS]

Thank you for your help, cire and mk12345. Definitely pointed me in the right direction. For anyone else looking at this thread, I used

counter--;

which I should have known is decrement. I guess it was getting too late to code last night!