Question

I am a beginner in C++ and I was doing a do/while loop exercise and I am having trouble with it recognising the condition let alone it not looping properly. Can you guys give me a good foundation on how a simple problem like this is solved? I want to try and use a string to fulfill the condition of the do/while loop.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
    double mean = 0;
    string continuer;
    do
    {
        cout << "Do you want to proceed?" << endl;
        getline (cin, continuer);
        cout << "something" << endl;
        cin >> mean;
    }
    while (continuer == "Y" || continuer == "y");

    return 0;
}

Answer 1

What I gather from your question and comment, you want to iterate through the loop at user’s will.

You just want a char variable for that, like this.

string input ;
int number = 0 ;

do
{
  cout << "Please enter a number" << endl ;
  cin >> number ;
  cout << "If you want to continue, Press Y" << endl ;
  cin >> input ;

} while (input == "Y" || input == "y") ;

This do-while loop will execute at least one time, because the condition gets checked at the end of the loop execution. So even if the user does not press Y when asked the first time, this loop would have been executed once. After that, it will go on as long as the condition is fulfilled.

Learn more about the do-while loop here.

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/control/