Question

Well I’m making an program about payrolls and I’m stuck. In the program, after the user has entered the number of employees, I have to make an loop, allowing the user to enter information for each of the employees. Then the data entered is to be stored in my employees array, which I made. Ive attempted my problem with the while(numberOfEmployees < MAXSIZE) part of my program. Is that right?

This is what I have now:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

const int MAXSIZE = 20;

struct EmployeeT
{
    char name[MAXSIZE];
    char title;
    double gross;
    double tax;
    double net;
};

EmployeeT employees[MAXSIZE];

int main()
{
    cout << "How many Employees? ";
    int numberOfEmployees;
    cin >> numberOfEmployees;

    while(numberOfEmployees > MAXSIZE)
    {
        cout << "Error: Maximum number of employees is 20\n";
        cout << "How many Employees? ";
        cin >> numberOfEmployees;
    }

    int name;
    int title;
    double gross;
    double tax;
    double net;

    for (int count=0; count<numberOfEmployees; count++)
    {
        cout << "Name: \n";
        cin >> employees[ count ].name;

        cout << "Title: \n";
        cin >> employees[ count ].title;

        cout << "Gross: \n";
        cin >> employees[ count ].gross;

        cout << "Tax: \n";
        cin >> employees[ count ].tax;

        cout << "Net: ";
        cin >> employees[ count ].net;
    }
}

I just updated it to this. My last question is how do I get the second loop to keep working as many times as the user wants. For as many employees the user types in?

Answer 1

Several problems:

1- Place a i++ somewhere inside the while loop
(Why not use a for loop?)

2- name and title should probably be a string:

#include <string>
//in the main:
std:string name;

3- the while condition should be:

while(i<numberOfEmployees && i<MAXSIZE)

(Edit: I see you just corrected that one)

Edit: I just noticed you always write to the same variables. Write to employees[i].name etc. instead.

Does that solve your problem?