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Kalcor (188)
Uhm I encountered a weird error that happened within these 2 codes:

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int step = 1;
for(int i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {
        //cout << step << " ";
        if(step == 1)
        {
            sumA += a[i];
            step++;
        }
        else if(step == 2)
        {
            sumB += a[i];
            step++;
        }
        else if(step == 3)
        {
            sumC += a[i];
            step = 1;
        }
    }

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int step = 1;
for(int i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {
        cout << step << " ";
        if(step == 1)
        {
            sumA += a[i];
            step++;
        }
        if(step == 2)
        {
            sumB += a[i];
            step++;
        }
        if(step == 3)
        {
            sumC += a[i];
            step = 1;
        }
    }


The first code increments step correctly while the 2nd code keeps step = 1 ALL THE TIME, why is that happening?
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wildblue (1505)
In the second example, there are separate if statements that all get evaluated.

line 1 - step is 1
line 5 - step == 1 is true, so line 8 - step is incremented to 2
line 10 - step == 2 is true, so line 13 - step is incremented to 3
line 15 - step == 3 is true, so line 18, step is back to 1
back to line 4, step is 1
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