goto statement not working

[MaxLascombe]

Hi everyone,
I'm relatively new to c++ programming and I was trying to create a program to convert things, such as a number of degrees celcius to fahrenheit. But I have been running into problems. First of all, I was trying to use the goto statement like here:

int main ()
{
cout << "Welcome";
strart:
...
...
goto start;
return 0;
}

but it hasn't been working. So I tried replacing it with a while statement:

int main()
cout << "Welcome";
int i = 0;
while (i <=0 )
{
...
char something;
cin >> something;
if (something == 'y')
{
i++;
}
else if (something == 'n')
{
...
}
else
{
return 0;
}
}
}

but that still isn't working. Could someone please help me?

[kooth]

What do you mean it isn't working? Are you getting an error when you compile? Are you getting a run-time error?

[MaxLascombe]

I'm getting an error when it compiles.

[viliml]

That's eaither beacause you named the label strart, not start, or because of the ...s

[MaxLascombe]

Sorry, didn't mean to write 'strart' in the post, but that is not my problem. I wrote it correctly in the file. And the ...s are just there to replace some code and make the focusing on the problem easier.

[Major Tom]

Your problem is because you have a return statement within the while statement, but not after it. The compiler doesn't like it because if theoretically the while loop finished without the final else{return 0;} block being executed, then int main() wouldn't return anything, which is illegal for anything except void functions.
EDIT: Also, you forgot the beginning brace for main(), but maybe that was just a typo.

Try:

int main()
{
cout << "Welcome";
int i = 0;
while (i <=0 )
{
...
char something;
cin >> something;
if (something == 'y')
{
i++;
}
else if (something == 'n')
{
...
}
else
{
return 0;
}
}
return 0;
}

I think that may be your problem. If not, go ahead and post the error please :]