C++ noob in need of help!

[RyanA19]

Hi, I am very new to C++ and I seem to be having a problem getting a program to work right. My program has to display true or false depending on the conditions that need to be met. For this program it deals with credit approval, so I assigned "bool creditOK". Now when I run the program I get either a 1 or 0 instead of true or false? Do I need boolalpha in my program somewhere? I looked throught my book and havnt found my answer yet and was hoping you guys could help me answer this simple question. Thanks!!

[Malone]

Standard C++ has a bool type which takes a value of either true or false. Sending this to an outputstream should give you a string "true" or "false".

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
  bool creditOK = true;

  cout << creditOK << endl;

  return 0;
}

The above code should print:
true


If that doesn't compile, then your compiler is out of date. If it does compile, I don't know why it's printing 0 or 1 instead of true or false. Can you post your code to show us what it does exactly?

[RyanA19]

I compiled the code you had and it returned true. Here is my code that I have so far:


#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{

double income, assets, lia;
bool creditOK;

cout << "\nEnter your income: $";
cin >> income;

cout << "\nEnter your assets: $";
cin >> assets;

cout << "\nEnter liabilities: $";
cin >> lia;

creditOK = (((income >= 25000) || (assets >= 100000) && (lia < 50000)));

cout << "Credit = "<< creditOK << endl;
return 0;
}

Everytime I run it, it displays Credit = 1 or Credit = 0 instead of true or false and I do not why. Thanks for the help.

[rock]

You need to set the boolalpha flag, part of iomanip:

Add #include <iomanip> at the top, and then change your cout line to:

cout << "Credit = " << boolalpha << creditOK << endl;


Alternatively, you can explicitly set the flag separately and use the same cout code. Just add

cout.setf(ios_base::boolalpha);

before the output.

[RyanA19]

Thanks!, It works now.