how to ignore the negative number that is used as a break for the for loop

[mcclit]

how to ignore the negative number that is used as a break for the for loop?

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

int main()
{
	int score, total;
	for (int counter = 0; score > -1; counter++)
	{
		cout << "Please enter non-negative score:";
		cin >> score;
		
		if (score < 0) //this takes a negative number and use it as a break to stop the loop
		{
		    total = score + score; 
		    cout << "true total score is: " << total << endl;
			break;
		}
	}
	return 0;
}

[salem c]

Like so?

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

int main()
{
	int score = 0, total;  // need to initialise
	for (int counter = 0; score > -1; counter++)
	{
		cout << "Please enter non-negative score:";
		cin >> score;
		
		if (score < 0) //this takes a negative number and use it as a break to stop the loop
		    break;

		total = total + score;  // not score + score
	}
	cout << "true total score is: " << total << endl;
	return 0;
}

[mcclit]

@salmem_c yes, its working as intended now, thank you

[mycuser]

Unless I'm missing some very obvious, variable total gets initialized to somewhere around 32764 by gcc.
score value is added to total in the loop.