It doesn't add up

[JC Young]

I'm running Vista and a Dev-C++ compiler.

My initial program runs through the compiler fine but it isn't calculating the answer correctly, I'm at a loss as to why. If I input something as simple as 1 for each question I get a 10 digit answer for the total.

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main ()
{
using namespace std;
int PB, EB, CC;
int Total;
cout << "What is the phone bill for this month? ";
cin >> PB;
cout << "What is the electric bill for this month? ";
cin >> EB;
cout << "What is the Credit card bill for this month? ";
cin >> CC;
Total = PB+EB+CC;
cout << "Total: " << Total << endl;
system("pause");
return 0;
}

Thanks ahead for any replies.

[tummychow]

Well, you're performing the calculation before you even get the data from the user, so there's no way C++ could have the correct values; you're probably getting garbage values because the variables have no initial values when you add them up.

[JC Young]

Thanks for the reply. I moved "Total = PB+EB+CC;" to the line following the last question input. I'm still getting a garbage total.

[gcampton]

also make sure "using namespace std;" is a declaration outside of class functions.

eg:

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
    int PB, EB, CC;
    ....
        ....
    ....
} 

[JC Young]

I figured it out.

I changed this:
Total = PB+EB+CC

to this:
Total = PB + EB + CC

and it works fine now.

[tummychow]

What the... how? The compiler ignores whitespaces...

[demosthenes2k8]

WTF? How did that fix it?

[helios]

My guess is that OP forgot to recompile.