/*************************************************************** * Name: Aidan Sharpe * Course: Computer Science & Programming * Class: CS04103 Section: 6 * Assignment Date: 10.06.2021 * File Name: Lab04-1ASharpe.cpp ***************************************************************** * ID: Lab 4 Problem 1 * Purpose: Run an election machine simulation *****************************************************************/ #include #include #include using namespace std; int main() { bool voting = true, firstAttempt = true; const string candidate1 = "Donald Trump", candidate2 = "Joe Biden"; // names of the candidates int vote = 0; int votes[2] = {0, 0}; // votes for each of the two candidates ofstream outFile; outFile.open("results.txt"); while ( voting ) { firstAttempt = true; vote = -1; do { // voter intro screen if ( firstAttempt ) cout << "\n\n\n" << "***********************************************************************\n" << "* WELCOME TO THE 2020 ELECTION *\n" << "***********************************************************************\n"; // invalid input instructions else cout << "\nWARNING: you have entered an invalid selection. Valid selections include (1), (2)\n"; // voter instructions cout << "Please select (1) to vote for " << candidate1 << " (2) to vote for " << candidate2 << " :"; cin >> vote; // break condition if (vote == 999) { voting = false; // put the results in a file outFile << candidate1 + ": " + to_string(votes[0]) + "\n" + candidate2 + ": " + to_string(votes[1]); outFile.close(); break; } firstAttempt = false; } while (vote != 1 && vote != 2); votes[0] += (vote == 1) ? 1 : 0; // conditionally incrament candidate 1 votes[1] += (vote == 2) ? 1 : 0; // conditionally incrament candidate 2 } // voting results screen cout << "\n\n\n" << "***********************************************************************\n" << "* 2020 ELECTION RESULTS *\n" << "***********************************************************************\n"; cout << endl << candidate1 << ": " << votes[0] << "\t\t\t" << candidate2 << ": " << votes[1] << endl; return 0; }