C++

Forum

 
Losing my mind (while loop)

DoomyNY (5)
This is array and loop practice and I cant seem to figure out what is going wrong. I have everything working in my while loop until I introduced the int pref as an input. It will not repeat the question and spazzes out. As soon as I take out everything below the int everything works again. I tried modifying the while loop and tried using a switch instead of another if else for the int. I'm completely lost. Can someone please help? 

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
 
#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>


using namespace std;

int main()
{
    
    const string name[5] = {"Wimp Macho", "Raki Rhodes", "Celia Laiter", "Hoppy Hipman", "Pat Hand"};
    const string title[5] = {"Programmer 1", "Programmer 2", "Programmer 3", "Programmer 4", "Programmer 5"};
    const string bop[5] = {"Mac", "Lightning", "Bloop", "Meep", "Merp"}; 
    int pref;
    char choice; 


while (choice != 'q')
{
    cout << "choice:"; 
    cin >> choice;
   
    if (choice == 'a')
    cout << name[0] << endl
         << name[1] << endl
         << name[2] << endl
         << name[3] << endl
         << name[4] << endl;
    else if (choice == 'b') 
    cout << title[0] << endl
         << title[1] << endl
         << title[2] << endl
         << title[3] << endl
         << title[4] << endl;
    else if (choice == 'c')
    cout << bop[0] << endl
         << bop[1] << endl
         << bop[2] << endl
         << bop[3] << endl
         << bop[4] << endl;
    else if (choice == 'd')
    cout << "Please enter a preference number: "<< endl
         << "0 for full name" << endl
         << "1 for title" << endl 
         << "2 for BOP name" << endl;
         cin >> pref; // Right here is where I'm lost
         switch (pref)
{
    case '0':  
    cout << name[0] << endl
         << name[1] << endl
         << name[2] << endl
         << name[3] << endl
         << name[4] << endl;
         break;
     case '1': 
    cout << title[0] << endl
         << title[1] << endl
         << title[2] << endl
         << title[3] << endl
         << title[4] << endl;
         break;
    case '2':
    cout << bop[0] << endl
         << bop[1] << endl
         << bop[2] << endl
         << bop[3] << endl
         << bop[4] 
         << endl;
         break;
         }
}       

    system("PAUSE");
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;

}
YodaCode (12)
I think this will help you out a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTnaB7TxTXo

Also, don't use system to pause your programs, use cin.get(); instead and why not just return 0; instead?
Topic archived. No new replies allowed.