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While loop to repeat the program

trannghi7707 (15)
Hello everyone,

I have this problem and I don't know how to fix it. I want my program to ask the user to run the program again. I try to use the while loop but it does work. And it has the be the while loop because my professor requested so. 

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//This program belongs to Nghi Tran
// C.S. M10A Fall 2014- Sec. 71245
// Lab07A: Sales Bar Chart
#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

int main()
{

	//Declare variables
	double sale1, sale2, sale3, sale4, sale5, totalsales, starcount;
	int star;
	char choice;
	
	//Ask the user to put in the sales for each day
	while (choice == 'Y' || choice == 'y')
	{
		cout << "Please enter today's sales for store 1: "; cin >> sale1;
		cout << "Please enter today's sales for store 2: "; cin >> sale2;
		cout << "Please enter today's sales for store 3: "; cin >> sale3;
		cout << "Please enter today's sales for store 4: "; cin >> sale4;
		cout << "Please enter today's sales for store 5: "; cin >> sale5;
		cout << endl;

		//Compute total sales
		totalsales = sale1 + sale2 + sale3 + sale4 + sale5;

		//Show user the sales chart
		cout << "SALES BAR CHART" << endl;
		cout << "(Each * = $100)" << endl;
		cout << endl;
		cout << "Store 1: ";
		starcount = round(sale1 / 100);
		for (star = 1; star <= starcount; star++)
			cout << "*";
		cout << endl;

		cout << "Store 2: ";
		starcount = round(sale2 / 100);
		for (star = 1; star <= starcount; star++)
			cout << "*";
		cout << endl;

		cout << "Store 3: ";
		starcount = round(sale3 / 100);
		for (star = 1; star <= starcount; star++)
			cout << "*";
		cout << endl;

		cout << "Store 4: ";
		starcount = round(sale4 / 100);
		for (star = 1; star <= starcount; star++)
			cout << "*";
		cout << endl;

		cout << "Store 5: ";
		starcount = round(sale5 / 100);
		for (star = 1; star <= starcount; star++)
			cout << "*";
		cout << endl;
		
		//Display total sales
		cout << setprecision(2) << fixed << "The total sales is: $" << totalsales << endl;
		cout << endl;

		//Prompt user to do another one
		cout << "Would you like to repeat one more time? (Y or N)" << endl;
		cin >> choice;
		
	}


	return 0;
}
shadowCODE (680)
line 16: char choice = 'Y'; // u need to initialize choice;
trannghi7707 (15)
Thank you very much for your help :D
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