cout overwrites previous inputs

[shk253]

Hi all - I'm trying to generate a payroll. I'm having trouble with the cout statements overwriting the previous inputs, e.g. enter info for employe 1: blah blah blah. Enter info for employee 2: blah blah blah...

When I generate the report, only information for employee 2 appears. I can see why this would happen from looking at my code... I would appreciate it if someone could let me know how to modify the code so that I could print out the results for all the employees entered.

Here is the some code from main():

    while (empNum != 0)
    {
          cout<<"Enter employee name: ";
          cin>>str;
          cout<<"Enter pay rate: ";
          cin>>prate;
          cout<<"Enter hours worked: ";
          cin>>hours;
          CalcPay(prate, hours, wages);
          total = total + wages;
          payFile<<empNum<<prate<<hours<<wages;
          cout<<"\nEnter Employee number (Or press 0 to exit): ";
          cin>>empNum;
    }
    cout<<"Total Payroll is: ";
    cout<<total<<endl;
 
    cout<<"\n\nDo you want to generate a report? Press Y or N: ";
    cin>>yorn;
    if(yorn != 'n' || yorn != 'N')
    {
            report(str, prate, hours, otime, wages);
    }

Here is some code from the function report() which is supposed to generate the report:

void report(char* str, float prate, float hours, float otime, float wages)
{
     cout<<endl<<setw(55)<<"EMPLOYEE PAYROLL REPORT - SPRING 2007\n"<<endl;
 
     line();
     cout<<endl;
 
     cout<<"    "<<setw(15)<<"Hourly"<<setw(10)<<"     "<<setw(15)<<"Overtime"<<setw(15)<<"Total \n";
     cout<<"Name"<<setw(15)<<"Rate  "<<setw(10)<<"Hours"<<setw(15)<<"Hours   "<<setw(15)<<"Salary\n";
 
     line();
     cout<<endl;
 
     cout<<str<<setw(15)<<prate<<setw(10)<<hours<<setw(15)<<otime<<setw(15)<<wages<<endl;
}

Thanks!

[Savage]

Hi all - I'm trying to generate a payroll. I'm having trouble with the cout statements overwriting the previous inputs, e.g. enter info for employe 1: blah blah blah. Enter info for employee 2: blah blah blah...

When I generate the report, only information for employee 2 appears. I can see why this would happen from looking at my code... I would appreciate it if someone could let me know how to modify the code so that I could print out the results for all the employees entered.

Here is the some code from main():

    while (empNum != 0)
    {
          cout<<"Enter employee name: ";
          cin>>str;
          cout<<"Enter pay rate: ";
          cin>>prate;
          cout<<"Enter hours worked: ";
          cin>>hours;
          CalcPay(prate, hours, wages);
          total = total + wages;
          payFile<<empNum<<prate<<hours<<wages;
          cout<<"\nEnter Employee number (Or press 0 to exit): ";
          cin>>empNum;
    }
    cout<<"Total Payroll is: ";
    cout<<total<<endl;
 
    cout<<"\n\nDo you want to generate a report? Press Y or N: ";
    cin>>yorn;
    if(yorn != 'n' || yorn != 'N')
    {
            report(str, prate, hours, otime, wages);
    }

Here is some code from the function report() which is supposed to generate the report:

void report(char* str, float prate, float hours, float otime, float wages)
{
     cout<<endl<<setw(55)<<"EMPLOYEE PAYROLL REPORT - SPRING 2007\n"<<endl;
 
     line();
     cout<<endl;
 
     cout<<"    "<<setw(15)<<"Hourly"<<setw(10)<<"     "<<setw(15)<<"Overtime"<<setw(15)<<"Total \n";
     cout<<"Name"<<setw(15)<<"Rate  "<<setw(10)<<"Hours"<<setw(15)<<"Hours   "<<setw(15)<<"Salary\n";
 
     line();
     cout<<endl;
 
     cout<<str<<setw(15)<<prate<<setw(10)<<hours<<setw(15)<<otime<<setw(15)<<wages<<endl;
}

Thanks!

I think that str must be a array of strings,so that it can store data in depandanece of array index.

This will also provoke that you must integrate a counter inside :

while (empNum != 0)

so that array stores report for each employe.


Savage

[shk253]

Savage - I haven't learnt arrays yet. I've been trying to use fstream to output to a file but each employee's data gets overridden. Is it possible to to tell the fstream file handle to skip a line each time it write the employees data? I suppose each time main() calls report(), the previous gnrt file gets overridden. Are arrays my only option?

Here is a snippet:

void report(char* str, float prate, float hours, float otime, float wages)
{
     ofstream gnrt;
     gnrt.open("gnrt.txt");
 
     cout<<endl<<setw(55)<<"EMPLOYEE PAYROLL REPORT - SPRING 2007\n"<<endl;
     gnrt<<endl<<setw(55)<<"EMPLOYEE PAYROLL REPORT - SPRING 2007\n"<<endl<<std::endl;
 
     line();
     cout<<endl;
     for(char c=0;c<75;c++)
     {
     gnrt<<'-';
     }
     gnrt<<std::endl;     
 
     cout<<"    "<<setw(15)<<"Hourly"<<setw(10)<<"     "<<setw(15)<<"Overtime"<<setw(15)<<"Total \n";
     cout<<"Name"<<setw(15)<<"Rate  "<<setw(10)<<"Hours"<<setw(15)<<"Hours   "<<setw(15)<<"Salary\n";
     gnrt<<"    "<<setw(15)<<"Hourly"<<setw(10)<<"     "<<setw(15)<<"Overtime"<<setw(15)<<"Total \n"<<std::endl;
     gnrt<<"Name"<<setw(15)<<"Rate  "<<setw(10)<<"Hours"<<setw(15)<<"Hours   "<<setw(15)<<"Salary\n"<<std::endl;
 
     line();
     cout<<endl;
     for(char c=0;c<75;c++)
     {
     gnrt<<'=';
     }
     gnrt<<std::endl;
 
     cout<<str<<setw(15)<<prate<<setw(10)<<hours<<setw(15)<<otime<<setw(15)<<wages<<endl;
     gnrt<<str<<setw(15)<<prate<<setw(10)<<hours<<setw(15)<<otime<<setw(15)<<wages<<endl<<std::endl;
}     

[Savage]

Try opening file in append regime:

....Code.....
 
ofstream gnrt("gnrt.txt", ios::app);
 
..............................................

Savage