Cases and Switch Issue - c++

Question

I am writing a program that simulates an ATM. So it tracks account balances, withdrawals and deposits in a very basic matter.
Everything works well during the first iteration, but if I go to make two or more deposits or withdrawals, the account balances default back to the original amount.
Here is an example of what is currently happening: I have $1,000 in my account initially. I make a deposit of $50. It prints out that I now have $1,050 in my account and asks if I would like to perform any other actions. (This is all good). If I select that I want to make another deposit of $100, it says my new account balance is $1,100 instead of $1,150. It does not store my latest account balance when I perform new withdrawals or deposits.
The second (less important) issue is that each time a withdrawal is made, there is a $2.50 fee for each withdrawal that also gets subtracted from my account balance.
I have not learned loops yet, only Cases, If statements and If Else Statements.
Is it possible to do what I want to do? Below is my code. Thank you in advance! This is my first time posting, so if I have pasted my code wrong, I apologize.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std; // opens library for "cout"
int main()
{
float test;
int logout;
string name;
float balance;
float fee;
int choice;
float withdraw;
float deposit;
float bonus;
bonus = 2.50;
balance = 1572.36;
fee = 12.50;
char answer;
cout << "Hello, thank you for banking with Pallet Town Bank.\n";
cout << "Please enter your name. ";
cin >> name;
cout << "Hello " << name << ". Your current balance is $" << balance << ".\n";
cout << "There will be a a service fee of $12.50 subtracted from your "
"account.\n";
cout << "Your updated balance will be $" << balance - fee << " \n";
cout << "What would you like to do today?\n";
do
{
cout << "\n1 - Current Balance\n2 - Withdraw\n3 - deposit\n4 - Log "
"Out\nOption: ";
cin >> choice;
switch (choice)
{
case 1:
cout << "\nCurrent Balance is " << balance - fee - withdraw + deposit
<< " \n";
cout << "Would you like to take any other actions today?\n";
break;
case 2:
cout << "\nWithdraw - How much would you like to withdraw? $";
cin >> withdraw;
cout << "Your new balance after withdrawing $" << withdraw << " will be $"
<< balance - fee - withdraw + deposit << "\n";
cout << "Would you like to take any other actions today?\n";
break;
case 3:
cout << "\nDeposit - How much would you like to deposit? $";
cin >> deposit;
test = balance - fee - withdraw + deposit;
cout << "Your new balance after depositing $" << deposit << " will be $"
<< test << endl; //<<balance - fee - withdraw + deposit<<"\n";
cout << "Would you like to take any other actions today? Y or N \n";
cin >> answer;
cout << answer;
if (answer == 'y' || 'Y')
{
test = balance - fee - withdraw + deposit + deposit;
cout << "Your new balance after depositing $" << deposit << " will be $"
<< test << endl;
}
// cout <<"Your new balance after depositing $"<<deposit<<" will be $"
// <<test<< endl; //<<balance - fee - withdraw + deposit<<"\n";
// cout <<"Would you like to take any other actions today?\n";
break;
case 4:
cout << "\nLog Out - Thank you for banking with Pallet Town Bank. Have "
"a great day!";
}
} while (choice != 4);
}

Answer 1

The main issue, as Alan Birtles points out, is that you never update the balance value; you just store the temporary calculations in the test variable.
Here's how you could change your code. I tried interpreting the expected behaviour of the program as best I could from the text:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
const double fee = 12.50;
double balance = 1572.36;
cout << "Hello, thank you for banking with Pallet Town Bank.\n";
cout << "Please enter your name. ";
string name;
cin >> name;
cout << "Hello " << name << ". Your current balance is $" << balance << ".\n";
cout << "There will be a a service fee of $12.50 subtracted from your "
"account.\n";
cout << "Your updated balance will be $" << (balance -= fee) << " \n";
cout << "What would you like to do today?\n\n";
while (true)
{
cout << "1 - Current Balance" << '\n'
<< "2 - Withdraw" << '\n'
<< "3 - deposit" << '\n'
<< "4 - Log Out" << '\n'
<< "Option: ";
int choice;
cin >> choice;
cout << endl;
if (choice == 4) break;
switch (choice)
{
case 1:
cout << "Current Balance is " << balance << '\n';
break;
case 2:
cout << "Withdraw - How much would you like to withdraw? $";
double withdraw;
cin >> withdraw;
cout << "Your new balance after withdrawing $" << withdraw << " will be $"
<< (balance -= withdraw) << '\n';
break;
case 3:
cout << "Deposit - How much would you like to deposit? $";
double deposit;
cin >> deposit;
cout << "Your new balance after depositing $" << deposit << " will be $"
<< (balance += deposit) << '\n';
break;
}
cout << "Would you like to take any other actions today? ";
char answer;
cin >> answer;
cout << endl;
if (toupper(answer) == 'N') break;
}
cout << "Log Out - Thank you for banking with Pallet Town Bank. Have a great day!" << endl;
}
Live demo
Changes
First of all, every time a modification is made (withdrawal/deposit), we need to actually update the balance. We can do so by using the += or -= operators (called "compound assignment" operators): when writing balance += x, we're adding x to balance, and when writing balance -= x we're subtracting. These expressions are equivalent to balance = balance + x and balance = balance - x, respectively.
I moved the "Would you like to [...]" part outside the switch statement, to avoid repeating it in each case.
As pointed out in the comments, answer == 'Y' || 'y' isn't the same as answer == 'Y' || answer == 'y'. I changed that to toupper(answer) == 'Y'.
I moved the logout handling outside the while loop, so that whenever the loop terminates, the logout message is always shown. That allows us to remove case 4 from the switch statement, by checking at the beginning if choice == 4 and then breaking out of the loop accordingly. This also implies the loop becomes a while (true) loop. Probably there is a more elegant way.
Even better
If you're confortable with functions, I would suggest refactoring the code, isolating each operation individually:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include <cmath>
using namespace std;
const int FEE = 1250; // fee in cents
//---- Utilities ----//
string moneyString(int cents) {
ostringstream oss;
oss << cents/100 << '.' << cents % 100;
return oss.str();
}
int toCents(double money) {
return int(round(money*100));
}
int getMoney() {
double money;
cin >> money;
return toCents(money);
}
//---- User input ----//
// Available choices
enum Choices {
BALANCE = 1,
WITHDRAW = 2,
DEPOSIT = 3,
LOGOUT = 4
};
short int getChoice() {
short int choice = 0;
while (choice < 1 or choice > 4) {
cout << "1 - Current Balance" << '\n'
<< "2 - Withdraw" << '\n'
<< "3 - deposit" << '\n'
<< "4 - Log Out" << '\n'
<< "Option: ";
string input;
cin >> input;
choice = atoi(input.c_str());
cout << endl;
}
return choice;
}
bool userWantsMoreActions() {
cout << "Would you like to take any other actions today? ";
char answer;
cin >> answer;
cout << endl;
return toupper(answer) == 'Y';
}
//---- Actions ----//
void greeting(double &balance) {
cout << "Hello, thank you for banking with Pallet Town Bank.\n";
cout << "Please enter your name. ";
string name;
cin >> name;
cout << "Hello " << name << ". Your current balance is $" << moneyString(balance) << ".\n";
cout << "There will be a a service fee of $12.50 subtracted from your account.\n";
cout << "Your updated balance will be $" << moneyString(balance -= FEE) << " \n";
cout << "What would you like to do today?\n\n";
}
void printBalance(const double &balance) {
cout << "Current Balance is " << balance << '\n';
}
void withdraw(double &balance) {
cout << "Withdraw - How much would you like to withdraw? $";
int withdraw = getMoney();
cout << "Your new balance after withdrawing $" << withdraw << " will be $"
<< (balance -= withdraw -= FEE) << '\n';
}
void deposit(double &balance) {
cout << "Deposit - How much would you like to deposit? $";
int deposit = getMoney();
cout << "Your new balance after depositing $" << moneyString(deposit)
<< " will be $" << moneyString(balance += deposit -= FEE) << '\n';
}
int main()
{
// Initialize a sample session:
double balance = 157236;
greeting(balance);
while (true)
{
short int choice = getChoice();
if (choice == Choices::BALANCE) printBalance(balance);
else if (choice == Choices::WITHDRAW) withdraw(balance);
else if (choice == Choices::DEPOSIT) deposit(balance);
else if (choice == Choices::LOGOUT) break;
if (not userWantsMoreActions()) break;
}
cout << "Log Out - Thank you for banking with Pallet Town Bank. Have a great day!" << endl;
}
Live demo