Loops and Paralel arrays

[gordiehow]

Hi! I'm meant to be writing a program that will compute the cost of a car and a body modification package plus a sales tax, as of right now devC++ is only giving me one error stating that the package variable was not declared, I can't figure out why that's the only compiler error it's giving me, any help is appreciated

  #include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()

{

//declare variables
double basePrice = 0.00;
string OptionPackageCodeArray[] = {"BB", "SP", "NP", "HE", "UC"};
double PackageCostArray [] = {1500.00, 3250.00, 4575.00, 7500.00, 5220.00};
double totalCost = 0.00;
double pricewPackage =0.00;

//prompt user for package code

std::cout <<"enter package code: BB, SP, NP, HE, UC";
std::cin >> package;
PackageCostArray[] +=package;

//provide error if incorrect code
while(true)
	{ 
	
	if (package < 0 || package >5 )
	cout<< "That is not a valid option" <<endl;

//compile price with tax if correct code
	else
	{ 
cout << "enter base price";
cin>>basePrice;

// compute total with tax
pricewPackage= basePrice+package
tax= pricewPackage*.15
 totalCost= pricewPackage+tax

Cout<<"The total price of your package is:" << totalCost <<endl;
		}
	}

}

[Flaze07]

here's you variable declarement..

//declare variables
double basePrice = 0.00;
string OptionPackageCodeArray[] = {"BB", "SP", "NP", "HE", "UC"};
double PackageCostArray [] = {1500.00, 3250.00, 4575.00, 7500.00, 5220.00};
double totalCost = 0.00;
double pricewPackage =0.00;
//string package; 

besides,

PackageCostArray[] += package; //wont compile 

if you are thinking of using D method to add each of the array member it wont work..you have to loop from the array beginning until the array end...

[gordiehow]

it says that the error is coming from line 19, the variable 'package' is what's not declared.
I assumed that using "OptionPackageCodeArray[] +=package;" would declare it though.

[gordiehow]

as dumb as I sound I'm completely lost on how to get this program to work, I only need the loop function to bounce out incorrect package code's.
Also I need to declare the package variable so that I can put it into the algorithm to output the total cost at the end which, it needs to be a string.

[mbozzi]

What type is package supposed to have?

The compiler doesn't know; tell it.

[Flaze07]

nope..
I suggest you put string package; at line 15 to declare it

[Flaze07]

anyways..what are package supposed to be ??
you asked the user to input some PackageCode (which is string) but for the error checking you check it with int..

	if (package < 0 || package >5 ) //if package is a string, this wont compile unless package is some sort of int stuff
	cout<< "That is not a valid option" <<endl;