No laughing at the newbie questions!

[Callahan]

Hi all,

Ok, dumb question time. Take a look at the code below, (ignoring the crap layout, etc). The program itself works except for a few glitches.
1). I want the user to be able to press Q to quit the loop and get the results. This was working at the start but obviously I've screwed something up and now it doesn't.
2). I would like each of the results printed on a seperate line instead of a stream of text and results with no spaces
3). When coding, what symbol is used to enable me to run the text over to the next line without C++ thinking that its the next piece of the program?
4). Last one. At the moment this program is stuck in the loop, everytime I enter the age of the client I get the results(?)
As I said, these are very dumb questions & I'm certainly no programmer, this is for a compulsery course I'm doing.
Thanks for your time.

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
char claimed;
int claim;
int age;
int u25;
int returns;
claimed = '*';
claim =0;
u25 = 0;
returns = 0;
while (claimed != 'Q')
{
claimed = ReadCharPr("Has the client claimed within the last 12 months? "
age = ReadIntPr("Age of client: "
if (claimed != 'Q')
{
returns = returns + 1;
}
if (age < 25)
{
u25=u25 +1;
}
if (claimed == 'Y')
{
claim = claim + 1;
}
WriteIntPr(&quot;Number of results analysed = &quot;, returns);
WriteIntPr(&quot;Number of claimants = &quot;, claim);
WriteIntPr(&quot;Number of claimants under 25 = &quot;, u25);
}
getchar();
return 0;
}

 

[Callahan]

Well, I knew they were dumb questions and after a few more hours of fiddling, I fixed all but question 2. So how can I get the results printed on a line of their own instead of just one after the other?

 

[TrooperMax]

I think the symbol to go to the next line is a slash followed by an n... &quot;/n&quot; or it might be a backslash... &quot;\n&quot;

also, when using cout endl is also used:

cout endl;

I don't know much either, but I hope that helps...

~Trooper_Max~

 

[TrooperMax]

Ok... I'm now pretty sure that it is a backlash followed by and n... &quot;\n&quot;

So I'm guessing if you do something like this in the section that writes the results it will work... :

WriteIntPr(&quot;Number of results analysed = &quot;, returns);
WriteIntPr(&quot;\nNumber of claimants = &quot;, claim);
WriteIntPr(&quot;\nNumber of claimants under 25 = &quot;, u25);

But I don't really know... I hope that helps you...

~Trooper_Max~

 

[Callahan]

Thanks Trooper_Max,

I found it in another newsgroup. If you're intrested, the revised code follows:

I needed to #include <fstream.h> in the headers.

WriteIntPr(&quot;Number of results analysed = &quot;, returns);
printf(&quot;\n&quot;
WriteIntPr(&quot;Number of claimants = &quot;, claim);
printf(&quot;\n&quot;
WriteIntPr(&quot;Number of claimants under 25 = &quot;, u25);
printf(&quot;\n&quot;

Thanks for the suggestions anyway.