Why is my dec variable changing?

after the loop ends the value of my "dec" variable changes could you figure it out?





#include %26lt;iostream%26gt;


#include %26lt;conio.h%26gt;


using namespace std;





int main()


{


int dec; //holds decimal value of an 8 bit binary


int pow2; //power of 2


cout%26lt;%26lt;"Enter 8 bit binary: ";





for(int x=0 , dec=0 , pow2=128 ; x%26lt;8 ; ++x , pow2/=2)


{


if(((static_cast%26lt;int%26gt;(getche())-48) == 1)) // get int value of char and compare to 1


dec+=pow2; // if 1 then add power of 2 to decimal


/*cout%26lt;%26lt;'\n'%26lt;%26lt;dec%26lt;%26lt;'\t'%26lt;%26lt;pow2%26lt;%26lt;endl;*/


}





cout%26lt;%26lt;" is equal to "%26lt;%26lt;dec%26lt;%26lt;endl;


}





remove the comments to see that the value correct while looping only. Sorry if the code is hard to understand|||Hi,





The "dec" identifier is reserved for something else in C++ and you're getting a conflict.





Cheers,


Bogdan|||I don't know why but when I restructured the for loop I got correct results!



dec = 0;

pow2 = 128;

for(int x=0 ; x%26lt;8 ; x++ )

{

if(((static_cast%26lt;int%26gt;(getche())-48) == 1)) // get int value of char and compare to 1

dec+=pow2; // if 1 then add power of 2 to decimal

// cout%26lt;%26lt;'\n'%26lt;%26lt;dec%26lt;%26lt;'\t'%26lt;%26lt;pow2%26lt;%26lt;endl;

pow2 /= 2;

}



+add

Love4Boo is correct. It's a manipulator function that's used with cout to set the base. The link is to the cplusplus reference.