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I have a kind of odd problem with my function inputData. It works fine for the first movie's input. However, when it goes to do the second movie it skips over asking you to enter in the second movie's name and goes straight to prompting you to enter in the second movie's sales. The movie's name needs to be able to include spaces.
Any ideas? Anything is greatly appreciated. Thank you
struct Movie{
string movieName;
double firstWeek;
double secondWeek;
double thirdWeek;
double fourthWeek;
double total;
double avg;
};
// prototypes
void dispMenu();
char menuChoice();
void inputData(Movie *mov);
float getValidSale();
void TotalAvgSales(Movie *mov);
void displayMovieData(Movie mov);
int main() {
cout << "Welcome to Movie Data\n";
// movie 1 and 2 structure variables
Movie movie1, movie2;
char choice = 'B';
do { // loop while not D
choice = menuChoice(); // get menu choice
switch (choice) // menu options
{
case 'A':
case 'a':
// input for first movie
cout << "First Movie\n";
inputData(&movie1);
// input for second movie
cout << endl << "Second Movie\n";
inputData(&movie2);
break;
case 'B':
case 'b':
// compute for movie 1
TotalAvgSales(&movie1);
// compute for movie 2
TotalAvgSales(&movie2);
cout << "Completed!\n";
break;
case 'C':
case 'c':
// display for first movie
cout << "First Movie\n";
displayMovieData(movie1);
// display for second movie
cout << "Second Movie\n";
displayMovieData(movie2);
case 'd':
exit;
}
} while (choice != 'D');
}
// displays the menu
void dispMenu(){
cout << "Menu Options:\n";
cout << "A) Add Data\n";
cout << "B) Compute Total and Avg\n";
cout << "C) Display Data\n";
cout << "D) Quit\n";
}
// gets menu choice and verifies that it is valid input
char menuChoice(){
char choice; // option selected
dispMenu(); // displays menu
cin >> choice;
choice = toupper(choice); // if they enter lowercase, changes it to uppercase
cin.ignore(1, '\n'); // ignores input buffer
while ( choice < 'A' || choice > 'D') // make sure it is A B C or D
{
dispMenu(); // display menu
cin >> choice;
choice = toupper(choice); // if enter lower case, make upper case
cin.ignore(1, '\n'); // ignore input buffer
}
return choice;
}
float getValidSale(){
float sale;
cout << "Please enter in the number of tickets sold...\n";
cin >> sale;
while ( sale < 0){
cout << "Please enter in the number of tickets sold (>0)...";
cin >> sale;
}
return sale;
}
here is the problem function below
void inputData(Movie *mov){
// enter movie name
cout << "Please enter in Movie name...";
getline (cin, mov->movieName);
// enter first week sales
cout << "First Week Number of Tickets Sold...\n";
cout << "Please enter the number of tickets sold...";
cin >> mov->firstWeek;
// verify input >0a
while(mov->firstWeek < 0){
cout << "Please enter in the number of tickets sold (>0)...";
cin >> mov->firstWeek;
}
// enter second week sales
cout << "Second Week Number of Tickets Sold...\n";
cout << "Please enter the number of tickets sold...";
cin >> mov->secondWeek;
// verify input >0
while(mov->secondWeek < 0){
cout << "Please enter in the number of tickets sold (>0)...";
cin >> mov->secondWeek;
}
// enter third week sales
cout << "Third Week Number of Tickets Sold...\n";
cout << "Please enter the number of tickets sold...";
cin >> mov->thirdWeek;
// verify input >0
while(mov->thirdWeek < 0){
cout << "Please enter in the number of tickets sold (>0)...";
cin >> mov->thirdWeek;
}
// enter second week sales
cout << "Fourth Week Number of Tickets Sold...\n";
cout << "Please enter the number of tickets sold...";
cin >> mov->fourthWeek;
// verify input >0
while(mov->fourthWeek < 0){
cout << "Please enter in the number of tickets sold (>0)...";
cin >> mov->fourthWeek;
}
}
// calculate the average sales
void TotalAvgSales(Movie *mov){
// adding up the sales of each week
mov -> total = mov->firstWeek + mov->secondWeek + mov->thirdWeek + mov->fourthWeek;
// finding the average
mov -> avg = mov->total/4;
}
// display the data
void displayMovieData(Movie mov)
{
cout << fixed << setprecision(2);
cout << "First Movie\n";
cout << "Division Name: " << mov.movieName << endl;
cout << "First Quarter Sales: "<< mov.firstWeek << endl;
cout << "Second Quarter Sales: "<< mov.secondWeek << endl;
cout << "Third Quarter Sales: " << mov.thirdWeek << endl;
cout << "Fourth Quarter Sales: "<< mov.fourthWeek << endl;
cout << "Total Number of Tickets Sold: " << mov.total << endl;
cout << "Average Number of Tickets Sold: " << mov. avg << endl;
}

Answer 1

I believe I fixed it. Right above the
getline (cin, mov->movieName);
i added a
cin.clear();
and a
cin.ignore();
This seems to work.