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Software Design Using C++



Review of Loop Patterns



Answering the Question


Remember that we are trying to rewrite the test program so that the program now has the user interactively enter a list of items to buy. For each item to be purchased, the program should prompt the user to enter the unit price and the number of units of this item to buy. The program should output the cost for each type of item and, at the end, the total cost.

You selected the "Repeat until the user says yes I want to quit" loop plan, shown in outline below. This is not workable since the problem description said nothing about asking the user whether or not to process another purchase. In other words, there is no yes/no question about whether to continue or quit the program. Go back and try again.


char Reply;
do
   {
   OneProblem();
   cout << "Do another (y/n)? ";
   cin >> Reply;
   }
while (Reply == 'y');

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Author: Br. David Carlson with contributions by Br. Isidore Minerd
Last updated: January 15, 2013
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