The following code seves to establish a movie database and query through it. It works as intended except for the first cout statements being clumped together. The code is as follows.
// array of structures #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <sstream> #include <stdio.h> #include <cctype> using namespace std; #define NUM_MOVIES 6 //structure struct movies_iit{ string title; int year; } films [NUM_MOVIES]; //global variables char title [20], y, n; int year; string search; //function 1 void sort_on_title(movies_iit films[], int n) { //Local struct variable used to swap records movies_iit temp; for(int i=0; i<n-1; i++) { for(int i=0; i<n-1; i++) { /*If s[i].title is later in alphabet than s[i+1].title, swap the two records*/ if(films[i].title>films[i+1].title) { temp = films[i]; films[i] = films[i+1]; films[i+1] = temp; } } } } //end function 1 //function query1 prototype void query1 (movies_iit movie); //function query2 prototype void query2 (movies_iit movie); //function 2 prototype void printmovie (movies_iit movie); //beginning of main int main () { //login //username: user //password: word string mystr; int n; char response; string pass; string name; cout << "enter your username "<<endl; cin >> name; cout << "enter your password "<<endl; cin >> pass; cout << "\n" << endl; if (name == "user" && pass == "word") cout << "Welcome, user." << endl; else {cout << "###" << "unrecognized username/password combination" << "\t" << "please try again" << "###" << endl; system("PAUSE"); return 0; } for (n=0; n<NUM_MOVIES; n++) { cout << "Enter title: "; getline (cin,films[n].title); cout << "Enter year: "; getline (cin,mystr); stringstream(mystr) >> films[n].year; } //sort records, function 1 call sort_on_title(films, NUM_MOVIES); cout << "\nYou have entered these movies:\n"; for (n=0; n<NUM_MOVIES; n++) printmovie (films[n]); //function 2 call //Query 1 cout << "Perform an alphabetical search? (y/n)" << endl; cin >> response; if (response == 'y') {cout << "Please enter title" << endl; cin >> title; for (n=0; n<NUM_MOVIES; n++) {query1 (films[n]); response == n; } } else if (response == 'n') cout << "\n" << endl; else cout << "invalid entry" << endl; //Query 2 cout << "Perform a chronological search? (y/n)" << endl; cin >> response; //greater than if (response == 'y') { cout << "greater than what year?" << endl; cin >> year; for (n=0; n<NUM_MOVIES; n++) { query2 (films[n]); } } else if (response == 'n') cout << "Thank you, goodbye." << endl; else cout << "invalid entry" << endl; system("pause"); return 0; } //end of main //function 2 definition void printmovie (movies_iit movie) { cout << movie.title; cout << " (" << movie.year << ")\n"; } //function query1 defintion void query1 (movies_iit movie) { if (movie.title == title) {cout << " >> " << movie.title; cout << " (" << movie.year << ")\n";} else {cout << movie.title; cout << " (" << movie.year << ")\n";} } //function query2 definition void query2 (movies_iit movie) { if (movie.year >= year) {cout << movie.title; cout << " (" << movie.year << ")\n"; } } I managed to trace the problem back to the login at the beginning of the code, without the
cout << "enter your username "<<endl; cin >> name; cout << "enter your password "<<endl; cin >> pass; cout << "\n" << endl; if (name == "user" && pass == "word") cout << "Welcome, user." << endl; else {cout << "###" << "unrecognized username/password combination" << "\t" << "please try again" << "###" << endl; system("PAUSE"); return 0; } section, the code works fine. Why is the beginning of my code sticking together, and how can I fix it without omitting the login?