[bossunkun]

Hi guys! I'm sure this is the wrong place since it's Pascal but I need immediate help.
I'm supposed to write this program while will accept an unknown number of names of candidates and the total votes that person has recieved. It's a program to do with elections. It basically has to find the Highest number among the numbers inputted and print "The winner is .....!"
I'm not sure I've written my program the correct way, but I keep getting this error. I would appreciate it if anyone could after this for me please.



This is the error:

bossunkun, on 13 March 2013 - 05:39 PM, said:

This is the error:

Sorry about that. I didn't see any edit button.

[Skydiver]

1. That code is Pascal. This is a C / C++ forum.
2. Paste in your code, not screenshots.

Moving to a more appropriate forum...

[bossunkun]

program election;

var name:string;
    votes:integer;


Highest:=0;
Begin
   writeln('Enter the candidate name.');
   readln(name);
   writeln('Enter the votes the candidate has recieved.');
   readln(votes);
   WHILE votes<>0 DO
           IF votes>Highest THEN
                    Highest:=votes;
           end
           writeln('Enter the candidate name.');
           readln(name);
           writeln('Enter the votes the candidate has recieved.');
           readln(votes);
   end
   writeln('The winner is',name);
End.

[sepp2k]

It's expecting Highest to be followed by a colon and type name, not by the assignment operator. You should have Highest : integer; in the var section and then Highest := 0; after the Begin.

This post has been edited by sepp2k: 14 March 2013 - 04:13 AM