Re: Beginning programmer... I need some help.

bmlclemson08 wrote:

Hey if anyone could I need to find out how to write a program that
will read in any number of integers, including none, and determine
which is
the largest integer. The part i can't figure out is getting the
program to read any number of integers. Any ideas at all would be
wonderful. here's the code for what i have so far.

#include <stdio.h>

int main ()

int main(void)

is better, as it spells it out for all to see...

{
int current_in, largest_so_far, counter;

printf ("Enter your numbers:\n");

scanf ("%d", &largest_so_far);

for (counter = 2; ; counter=counter+1)

This is a never-ending loop. I suspect that's not what you want.

{
scanf ("%d", &current_in);

Using fgets()/sscanf() combination is safer...


if (largest_so_far<current_in)
largest_so_far = current_in;
else
largest_so_far = largest_so_far;

The `else` part is superfluous.

}
printf ("The largest number is %i.\n", largest_so_far);

return 0;

}


All variables and suuch were determined in my class. I'm guessing my
problem is in the for statement, but I can't figure it out. Thanks
again for any help.

Hint: ask user for a number of integers they want to enter; store that
in your `counter`; while `counter` is > 0 read in number, determine if
it's largest so far, decrement `counter`, rinse, repeat; output
`largest_so_far`.

Cheers

Vladimir


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