Loop homework help

[9Nh5Djzh]

Hi everyone!
I need help with an assignment for school. This is the problem:
You are tracking the prices of some asset over time. The user will input a series of floating-point prices (e.g. 16.105 for sixteen dollars, ten and a half cents). When the user enters the price 0 (zero), output the overall minimum, mean, and maximum prices. Hint: there could be thousands or millions of prices to process, so do not try to store each one as it arrives, but keep a running total..

I've been using a while loop for user input, but I don't know how to get the last 0 that marks the end of the list to not be included in calculating the average. Can anyone shine some light on this for me?
Much thanks!

[Austin J]

Couldn't you just use an if statement?

[9Nh5Djzh]

I don't know how to do that yet...

[Austin J]

Oh don't worry they're not that hard.

Example of one:

#include<iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
 {
      int a;
      cin >> a;
     if (a <= 100)
     {
        cout << "You picked a number less than 100" << endl;
     }
   
    if (a >= 100)
    {
       cout << "You picked a number greater than 100" << endl;
    }
      return 0;
  }
 

So you could use an if statement for when your variable is 0.

[9Nh5Djzh]

oh wow, thanks!
I just meant I don't know how to make it so that if the user enters a 0 to finish the line of input using an if statement.