Loop Help.

[Zips]

This is my first time writing a loop for a program and I cannot get an output I want so that my following function works. I have to write a loop that reads the amount of hours an employee works each day for five days. I am able to run the loop, have the inputs put in, and it gives a total. However, when I go to test the gross payment, it says that the total gross pay is "Inf". I don't really know how to fix it, even after all the research I did.

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;
string readEmployeesName()
{
  //Declarations

  string employeesName;

  //Intializations
  //Input

  cout << "Please enter the employee's name: ";
  cin >> employeesName;

  //Output
  //Prologue

  return employeesName;
}

double readHourlyPayRate()
{
  //Declaration

  double hourlyPayRate;

  //Intializations
  //Input

  cout << "Please enter the hourly pay rate of employee: ";
  cin >> hourlyPayRate;

  //Process/Calculations
  //Output
  //Prologue

  return hourlyPayRate;
}

double readHoursWorked()
{
  //Declaration

  double hoursWorked;
  double employeesName;
  double days;
  double totalHoursWorked;

  //Intializations
  //Input

  while(days <= 5)
    {
      cout << "Please enter the amount of hours worked by employee on day" << days << ":" <<  endl;
      cin >> hoursWorked;

      days++;

      totalHoursWorked = totalHoursWorked+hoursWorked;      
    }

  //Process/Calculations
  //Output
  //Prologue

  return totalHoursWorked;
}

double calculateGrossPay()
{
  //Declaration

  double grossPay;
  double totalHoursWorked;
  double hourlyPayRate;

  //Initializations

  grossPay = 0.0;

  //Input
  //Process/Calculations

  grossPay = hourlyPayRate*totalHoursWorked;

  //Output

  cout << "Total Gross Pay: " << grossPay << endl;

  //Prologue

  return grossPay;
}

int main()
{
  //Declarations

  string employeesName;
  double hourlyPayRate;
  double hours;
  double hoursWorked;
  double grossPay;
  double stateTax;
  double federalTax;
  double FICA;
  double totalWithholding;
  double netPay;

  //Initializations

  hourlyPayRate = 0.0;
  hours = 0.0;
  hoursWorked = 0.0;
  grossPay = 0.0;
  stateTax = 0.0;
  federalTax = 0.0;
  FICA = 0.0;
  totalWithholding = 0.0;
  netPay = 0.0;

  //Input

  employeesName = readEmployeesName();
  while (employeesName!="done")
    {
      hourlyPayRate = readHourlyPayRate();
      hoursWorked = readHoursWorked();

      cout << "In main before calculateGrossPay: " << grossPay << endl;
      grossPay = calculateGrossPay();
      cout << "In main after calculateGrossPay: " << grossPay << endl;

      stateTax = calculateStateTax();
      federalTax = calculateFederalTax();
      FICA = calculateFICA();
      totalWithholding = calculateTotalWithholding();
      netPay = calculateNetPay();
      displayResults();
      employeesName = readEmployeesName();
    }

  //Output
  //Prologue

  return 0;
}

[tree]

grossPay is declared locally inside calculateGrossPay(), so you cant cout it in main().

try cout<<calculateGrossPay, I think this is what you want.

Otherwise, you could declare grossPay globally and change calulateGrossPay to a void function which assigns grossPay inside.

[Ispil]

Well, you can re-write calculateGrossPay() to take two values, one for hourlyPayRate and one for hoursWorked.