homework help please

[justhappy]

thanks everyone.

[tipaye]

Ha ha. This is the second post you see on the site, after the "welcome" post, which tells you to search before asking. try and read both.

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/1988/

EDIT
Hypocrites confession:
I never read those posts either, I had to check just now to be doubly sure of what I wrote above.

[sujitnag]

add two line

#include<stdlib.h>// add header

system("pause");// before return 

return 0;

[ne555]

that threat is quite lengthy and shows quite some ways of doing it wrong

http://www.cplusplus.com/articles/iw6AC542/

a console program should be run from the console

however, the behaviour that you want should be one of the things an IDE provides, consult the documentation.

[Engineering]

Use a for loop, this looks incompetent

[titevi3tboi]

or you can do this

#include <conio.h>// add header

_getch();//before return 

[ne555]

The problem with ``add this line before return'' solutions is that they are useless if the code does not reach that line. By instance:
- there is a call to `exit()' or `abort()'
- an exception is thrown and not catch
- there is a fatal error (segmentation fault)

However, if you run your program from the console, when it terminates you are left in the console.

[justhappy]

thank you all for your input.