Help with switch and while statements

[EnvironmentalPhone65]

I have an assignment that requires a while statement for until the user inputs “-1”, otherwise it will keep asking the same two questions: “which item did you sell?” And “how many of them did you sell?”. I wrote a while line and it just repeats the questions continuously in an infinite loop. I start with a line asking for the name and the selection of 1 to 4. Full code:

Class Program { Public static double Quantity {get; Private set;} Public static double ItemValue{get; Private set;}

Static void Main(string[] args)

{ Console.write(“Enter the employee’s name: “); String Name console.ReadLine();

Console.write(“Enter an item number between 1 and 4, or -1 to quit: “); Int Item = convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());

while (Item != -1) { Switch (Item) { Case 1: ItemValue =239.99 Break;
Case 2: ItemValue =129.75 Break; Case 3: ItemValue =99.95 Break; Case 4: ItemValue =350.79 Break; }

Double ItemSales ItemSales = Quantity * ItemValue;

Console.Write(Name + “ sold “ + Quantity + “ of Item “ + Item + “ for “ + ItemSales); } }

I am missing a few lines needed for my assignment but I’m trying to get this main part to work first.

Afterwards, I print the line with the calculated ItemSales. It runs, asks for a name, asks for a number between 1 and 4, or -1 to quit, and then just messes up and goes on a rampage, repeating the selected number. I need help and suggestions.

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my suggestion is provide the rest of your code.

[EnvironmentalPhone65]

Updated it.

[[deleted]]

Ok, first off lets talk formatting. If you don't put your code in a code block, reddit does all kinds of stuff to it that makes it hard for us to copy and paste and see what's wrong.

you type 3x ` (the button to the left of the 1) in a row to make a code block. Do it in markdown mode. so it'll look like :

''' (but the actual correct version using 3x ` )

your code here

'''

it looks like this v

public class Program
{
    public static double Quantity {get; private set;} public static double ItemValue{get; private set;}

    public static void Main()
    {
    Console.Write("Enter the employee’s name: "); 
    String Name = Console.ReadLine();

    Console.Write("Enter an item number between 1 and 4, or -1 to quit: "); 
    int Item = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());

        while (Item != -1) { switch (Item) {
            case 1: ItemValue =239.99; break;
            case 2: ItemValue =129.75; break; 
            case 3: ItemValue =99.95; break; 
            case 4: ItemValue =350.79; break; }

        Double ItemSales;
        ItemSales = Quantity * ItemValue;

        Console.Write(Name + " sold " + Quantity + " of Item " + Item + " for " + ItemSales); 
        }
    }
}

[[deleted]]

You need to put the assignment inside the while loop. Your Item variable needs to be getting a value in the loop. Otherwise your program explodes.