Question

I'm working on an beginning C++ assignment that requires me to find the minimum and maximum values of a variable.
Specifically, the program is asking the user to input the age of people going in to a particular business. I'm using a single variable "age", and a while loop to get the various age values.
What I need now is a way to get the max/min values entered into the variable age.
Can anyone help? I hope that's clear! Thanks!

Answer 1

http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html

I am not a C++ person. But MSDN has some great tutorials and there's a classing post at
http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html that may help!

Answer 2

void main( )
{ int age[20],i,min,max;
for(i=0;i<=20;i++)
{ cout<<"Enter the age of i th man";
cin>>age[i];
}
for(i=0;i<=20;i++)
{ if(age[i]>max)
max=age[i];
if(age[i]<min)
min=age[i];
}
cout<<"maximum aged man is :";
cout<<max;
cout<<"minimum aged man is :";
cout<<min;
getch( );
}

Answer 3

There's no need to store the ages in an array if all you want is the min and max:

void main()
{
bool started = false; // or equivalent C++ syntax
int min, max, age;
while (1)
{
cin >> age; // read ages in somehow
if (!started) // first time through loop, first age is both min and max
{
min = age;
max = age;
started = true; // or equivalent C++ syntax
}
else if (age < min)
min = age;
else if (age > max)
max = age;
}
}