Pset1: Water- Infinite Loop

Question

Ive encountered an infinite loop while writing code for the water assignment of pset1

Yeah, I realise Ive made a complete mess. Now Im lost as to how I should proceed further. Also I did the same problem using if else structure and it worked (confirmed by check50). However in the walkthrough video for water a do while structure is mentioned for this problem, so do i need to have a do while structure or can I submit the if else one if im not able to do it using the former?

So from the suggestions commented below i tried writing a new code but im getting errors:

I dont understand why its saying that i havent initialised the variable a. Have i placed it wrong?

Answer 1

What we want is that the user input, with the get_int function is inside the DO-WHILE loop, we do not want to print the number of bottles inside that loop because if i is positive the end condition of loop (i> 0) does not Is never fulfilled, and we have an infinite loop. The solution is to ask the user a positive number, that is to say we keep asking for a number while it is negative:(eliminate IF condition)

do
{
   int i = get_int()
}
while(i < 0)

And only then print the number of bottles EDIT:

Maybe my answer is not clear, Inside main we must declare int a = 0; We can initialize to zero so that the compiler is happy, This variable is visible inside the DO-WHILE loop, so we must not re-define it, ie inside the loop we must not do again int a, only a = get_int(); If we declare again int a, within the loop we actually have a new variable, different from the previous one, so the first one appears as shaded and unused

Answer 2

Remember your not changing the value of 'i' ..try a different way to stop th loop 😅Vote if u understood 🤘🏻

Answer 3

There is no need for using a loop in this question. Just type the exact code, this time without using a loop. The get_int function will give retry message if the entered data is not an integer. I hope i made it clear.