while loop problem

[adam2016]

Hi guys,I want my program to exit while the var TheChoice is not = to 4 but what I find is after I'm well into the loop when I hit 4 the loop does not exit,it continues any idea what I did wrong in my code? thanks

  #include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int getChoice();

int main()
{
    int theChoice  = getChoice();

    while(theChoice != 4){

    int theChoice  = getChoice();

    }
}


int getChoice(){

    int choice;

    cout << "enter 1 for useless items" << endl;
    cout << "enter 2 for helpful items" << endl;
    cout << "enter 3 for harmful items" << endl;
    cout << "enter 4 to quit" << endl;

    cin >> choice;

    return choice;

}

[AbstractionAnon]

Line 13: You're declaring another instance of theChoice with block scope. This hides the variable at line 9. Remove the int from line 13.

[adam2016]

yeah that was driving me crazy something so simple haha