Avarage of random number

[midgarsorm]

Hello I'm using visual studio
I need help making a program where a txt file will be read.
my program should read all the test scores in the line and will stop when -1 is entered

example input file

joshua
90 89 -1
michael
76 80 89 -1
Shawn
78 100 90 80 -1

my problem is how should i get the test scores in the line to calculate average of it
Im thinking using getline(Fin,Scores) but Im not sure if that is the right method

[WaltP]

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[midgarsorm]

This is my code

#include<iostream>
#include<string>
#include<iomanip>
#include<fstream>

using namespace std ;
int main() 
{
	
	int Test_Number= 0;
	float  Average, Sum= 0, Score;
	string Name, File_Name;
	ifstream Fin;
	ofstream Fout;

Fin>>FName;
Fout<<Name;
while(!Fin.eof())
	{
		do{	
		Fin>>First_Name>>Last_Name;
		Fout<<First_Name<<" "<<Last_Name;
		Fin>>Score;
		}
	  while(Score !=-1) ;
	  Fin>>(Score);
	  Sum += Score ;
	  Test_Number++ ;
	}
	Average = Sum/Test_Number;

fout<<Test_number<<Average

this is what my output file shows

joshua 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 to infinity

[WaltP]

What happened to point 2? It specifically mentioned CODE Tags. And proper formatting. You used neither.

As for your code, so many problems!

ifstream Fin;
	ofstream Fout;

Fin>>FName;     // Where are you inputting from?
Fout<<Name;     // 1: Where are you outputting to?
                // 2: What value are you outputting?
while(!Fin.eof())
	{
		do{	
		Fin>>First_Name>>Last_Name; 
		Fout<<First_Name<<" "<<Last_Name;
		Fin>>Score;         // Are you doing anything with this score?
		}
	  while(Score !=-1) ;  // What is this DO-WHILE really doing?  Work it out.
	  Fin>>(Score);
	  Sum += Score ;
	  Test_Number++ ;
	}

[midgarsorm]

this is what i got right now

ifstream Fin;
	ofstream Fout;

	cout<<"Please input file name:  ";
	getline(cin,File_Name);
	Fin.open(File_Name.c_str());
	if (Fin.fail())
		cout<<"\n\t\tBad file name, process terminated.\n";
	else
	{
	cout<<"Please output file name: ";
	getline(cin,File_Name);
	Fout.open(File_Name.c_str());
	if(Fout.fail())
	{
		cout<<"\n\t\tCould not open output file. Program terminated/\n";
		return 0;
	}
while(!Fin.eof())
	{
			
		Fin>>First_Name>>Last_Name;
		Fout<<First_Name<<" "<<Last_Name;
		
	while(Score!=-1){  /* I Think there is a problem in this logic but im not sure*/
	  Fin>>Score;
	  Sum+=Score;
	  Test_Number++ ;
	}
if (Test_Number == 0)
	Fout<<"\t"<<Test_Number<<setprecision(4)<<right<<"Error there were no scores for this student"<<endl;
	else
		Fout<<"\t"<<Test_Number<<setw(14)<<fixed<<setprecision(1)<<right<<Average<<endl;
}
	Fout<<endl;
	}
	Fout.close();
    Fin.close();

    return 0;
}

[WaltP]

And what is your problem now? And please fix your formatting for the next post. The code is very difficult to follow.

[midgarsorm]

i want the output to be
joshua 2 89.5
michael 3 81.7
Shawn 4 87

but im getting

joshua 3 -0.3
3 -0.3
michael 3 -0.3
76 80 89 -1 3 -0.3
Shawn 3 -0.3
78 100 90 80 -1 3 -0.3

[WaltP]

It's not jumping out at me (although I have my suspicions). What I'd do is
1) change the outputs from Fout into cout so you can actually watch the program as it executes.
2) add more cout statements and display values as they are read and calculated. See if the values are correct as the program progresses.

[grh1107]

double avgl (double x)
{
static int n=0;
static double s = 0;
s+=x;
n++;
s/n;
lavg = s/n;
return lavg;
}

[raptr_dflo]

You are correct, you have a logic error (more than one) in your while() loop from lines 25-29. How do you start the loop if you haven't yet read a score? Once you -do- read a score, what happens if it's -1?

[midgarsorm]

I Change it now to

while(!Fin.eof())
{


Fin>>First_Name>>Last_Name;
Fout<<First_Name<<" "<<Last_Name;
Fin>>Score;
while(Score!=-1){  /* I Think there is a problem in this logic but im not sure*/
Fin>>Score;
Sum+=Score;
Test_Number++ ;
}
if (Test_Number == 0)
Fout<<"\t"<<Test_Number<<setprecision(4)<<right<<"Error there were no scores for this student"<<endl;
else
Fout<<"\t"<<Test_Number<<setw(14)<<fixed<<setprecision(1)<<right<<Average<<endl;

the output file now shows

joshua 2 89.5
joshua 2 89.5
joshua 2 89.5
joshua 2 89.5 

to infinity