Microsoft Visual C++/cli step by Step

 

CHAPTER 5

 

Decision and loop statements 

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Note The for statement is very flexible. You can omit any of the three expressions in the 

for construct as long as you retain the semicolon separators. You can even omit all three 

expressions, as in for( ; ; ), which represents an infinite loop

The preceding example displays the output shown in the following screen shot.

In this exercise, you will modify your Calendar Assistant application so that it uses a for loop rather 

than a while loop to obtain five dates from the user.

1. 

Continue working with the project from the previous exercise.

2. 

Modify the code in the main function to use a for loop rather than a while loop, as shown 

here:

Console::WriteLine("Welcome to your calendar assistant"); 

 

for (int count = 1; count <= 5; count++) 

{ 

    Console::Write("\nPlease enter date "); 

    Console::WriteLine(count); 

 

    int year = GetYear(); 

    int month = GetMonth(); 

    int day = GetDay(year, month); 

    DisplayDate(year, month, day); 

}

Notice that there is no count++ statement after displaying the date. This is because the for 

statement takes care of incrementing the loop counter.

3. 

Build and run the application. The application asks you to enter five dates, as before.