doubling output wrong

[Reaper1]

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main(double pay)
{
	int days;
	float daily;
	double total;

	cout << "This will display the total salary at the end of the month.\n\n" << endl;

	cout.setf(ios_base::fixed , ios_base::floatfield);
	cout.precision(2);

	cout << "Enter how many days you worked in the month: ";
	cin >> days;
	cout << "Enter the daily pay in pennies meaning cents: $";
	cin >> daily;
	cout << "\n\n";

	while (days < 1 || days > 31)
	{
		cout << "Please re-enter the data, days must be greater than 0 and less than or equal to 31.\n\n";
		cout << "Enter how many days you worked in the month: ";
		cin >> days;
		cout << "Enter the daily pay in pennies meaning cents: ";
		cin >> daily;
		cout << "\n\n";
	}

	for (int dys = 1 ; dys <= days ; dys++)
	{
		pay *= 2;
		cout << dys << "      " << pay;
		cout << endl;
	}

	total =+ pay + pay;
	cout << "\n\n";

	cout << "Your total salary is $" << total << endl;

	cout << endl << "Press ENTER to exit...";
	cin.clear();
	cin.sync();
	cin.get();

	return 0;
}

say i enter i worked 3 day and the pay each day was $0.02

its suppose to double so example

day 1 0.02
day 2 0.04
day 3 0.08

your total is 0.14

the pay is suppose to double, but when i run my program the pay is always showing 0.00 for everything.

can anyone see why.

[TheIdeasMan]

This is the first time I have seen anyone do this:

int main(double pay)

The normal convention is to use the following for program arguments:

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

return 0;
}

If this look's too tricky, just get input for the pay variable with cin.

[Reaper1]

ok, heres my updated code.

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	int days;
	float pay;
	double total;

	cout << "This will display the total salary at the end of the month.\n\n" << endl;

	cout.setf(ios_base::fixed , ios_base::floatfield);
	cout.precision(2);

	cout << "Enter how many days you worked in the month: ";
	cin >> days;
	cout << "Enter the daily pay in pennies meaning cents: $";
	cin >> pay;
	cout << "\n\n";

	while (days < 1 || days > 31)
	{
		cout << "Please re-enter the data, days must be greater than 0 and less than or equal to 31.\n\n";
		cout << "Enter how many days you worked in the month: ";
		cin >> days;
		cout << "Enter the daily pay in pennies meaning cents: ";
		cin >> pay;
		cout << "\n\n";
	}

	for (int dys = 1 ; dys <= days ; dys++)
	{
		pay *=  2;
		cout << dys << "      " << pay;
		cout << endl;
	}

	total =+ pay + pay;
	cout << "\n\n";

	cout << "Your total salary is $" << total << endl;

	cout << endl << "Press ENTER to exit...";
	cin.clear();
	cin.sync();
	cin.get();

	return 0;
}

now when i enter 3 days worked and 0.02 as the pay

the table comes up and displays

1 0.04
2 0.08
3 0.16

and my total displays 32.

The correct output should be

1 0.02
2 0.04
3 0.08

total should display 0.14

got any ideas on how to fix this.

[Raman009]

Try this code ..

double total = 0 ;
for (int dys = 1 ; dys <= days ; dys++)
	{
		cout << dys << "      " << pay << endl;
                total = total + pay ;
                pay *= 2 ; 
	}

cout << "Total " << total  << endl;

Try using do while loop when asking for pay and days so that you don't have to write the same lines again.

[Reaper1]

ok and thank you guys it works now.