Breaking out of a loop

Feb 20, 2014 at 12:05am
So I'm learning about arrays and I'm having trouble breaking out of a loop that adds user input directly into the array without adding the last value to the sum. Putting a value (anything below 0)that is supposed to break out of the loop does break it from the loop but it also adds it to my sum, thus affecting my average. This is what I have. Any help you guys can provide would be greatly appreciated.


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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>
#include <cmath>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <ctime>
#include <cstdio>

using namespace std;

/*
 * 
 */
int main() {

    int sum = 0;
    int count = 0;
    int scores[100];
    int average = 0;

    
        cout << "Enter a score: ";
        cin >> scores[count];
        sum+=scores[count];
        count++;
        
    while (scores[count-1]>=0)
    {
     
        cout << "Enter a score: ";
        cin >> scores[count];
        sum+=scores[count];
        count++;
                
    }
    average = sum/count;
    cout << average;
    
   
       










    return 0;







}
Last edited on Feb 20, 2014 at 12:06am
Feb 20, 2014 at 12:20am
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int score = 0;
while ( count < 100 && cin >> score )
{
  if ( score < 0 ) break;
  sum += score;
  scores[count] = score;
  ++count;
}
Feb 20, 2014 at 12:28am
oh wow I feel really dumb now, that was such an easy solution. Thank you so much.
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