error: expected identifier or '(' with greedy.c

Question

I've been working on greedy.c and received this error in terminal:

greedy.c:23:1: error: expected identifier or '('
if cents > 25
^

I thought it had something to do with the if...else statement I used but I'm not sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Unlike other languages(like python), in c++, if statements are used in the form

if (test_condition)
{
     // do something here
}
else if (another_test_condition)
{
     // do something here
} 
else
{
     // do something here
}

You need to use brackets() there. Another thing to be noted is that you should have googled the problem before asking on SE, that would do the work.