Question

I need a function that will go through below values and print out the highest value with its name. It is not hard to find the highest value which is 20 but I can’t figure out a way to display the name of the value. Thank you!

Example:

North: 5
South: 10
West: 15
East :20

Output:

Winner is East with $20 in sales!

Here is what I got so far

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

double northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest;
// Function prototype
double getSales(string);
void findHighest();

int main()
{
    northeast = getSales("Northeast");
    northwest = getSales("Northwest");
    southeast = getSales("Southeast");
    southwest = getSales("Southwest");


    return 0;
}

//Function getSales
double getSales(string name)
{   cout << "What is the quarterly sales figure for " << name << "? ";
    double sales;
    cin >> sales;
    while (sales < 0)
    {
        cout << "Please enter a positive value ";
        cin >> sales;
    }
    return sales;
}

// Function getHighest
void getHighest()
{



}

Answer 1

thank you for your responses. Following was the answer I was looking for.

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

double NE, NW, SE, SW;
// Function prototype
double getSales(string);
void getHighest(double,double,double,double);

int main()
{
    NE = getSales("Northeast");
    NW = getSales("Northwest");
    SE = getSales("Southeast");
    SW = getSales("Southwest");

    cout << setprecision(2) << fixed;
    getHighest(NE, NW, SE, SW);

    return 0;
}

//Function getSales
double getSales(string name)
{   cout << "What is the quarterly sales figure for " << name << "? ";
    double sales;
    cin >> sales;
    while (sales < 0)
    {
        cout << "Please enter a positive value for " << name << " ";
        cin >> sales;
    }
    return sales;
}

// Function getHighest
void getHighest(double NE, double NW,
                 double SE, double SW)
{
    if (NE > SE && NE > NW && NE > SW)
        cout << "\nNortheast is the highest grossing division with $" << NE << endl;
    if (NW > NE && NW > SE && NW > SW)                      
        cout << "\nNorthwest is the highest grossing division with $" << NW << endl;
    if (SE > SW && SE > NW && SE > NE)                        
        cout << "\nSoutheast is the highest grossing division with $" << SE << endl;
    if (SW > SE && SW > NW && SW > NE)                        
        cout << "\nSouthwest is the highest grossing division with $" << SW << endl;

}