Cola Machine #1

I have been working on the code listed here.

I am working on Problem #2, 0 stars. Here's what I have to do:


Write a program that presents the user w/ a choice of your 5 favorite beverages (Coke, Water, Sprite, ... , Whatever).
Then allow the user to choose a beverage by entering a number 1-5.
Output which beverage they chose.

NOTE:
I won't be creating a switch statement or making a error message if you give a value other than one that is 1-5, because that are part of the next step in the project.

using std::cout;
using std::cin;
using std::endl;

int main()
{
    int UserSodaChoice;

    cout > UserSodaChoice;

    if (UserSodaChoice == 1)
    {
        cout << "I don't like Coca-Cola...";
    }
    if (UserSodaChoice == 2)
    {
        cout << "Sprite is ok I guess.";
    }
    if (UserSodaChoice == 3)
    {
        cout << "Waayyyy too much sugar.";
    }
    if (UserSodaChoice == 4)
    {
        cout << "Mountain Dew! Nice.";
    }
    if (UserSodaChoice == 5)
    {
        cout << "Eww. People don't drink Pepsi these days, it ain't the 90's.";
    }
    cout << "\n\n\n\t\t\t";
}

Yet another way of performing the dispatch according to a user selection would be with an array of strings. Or better still, with an std::array, assuming your compiler is C++11 capable (which is probably the case):

// Add these somewhere:
#include 
#include 

...

const std::array choices = {
    "I don't like Coca-Cola...",
    "Sprite is ok I guess.",
    "Waayyyy too much sugar.",
    "Mountain Dew! Nice.",
    "Eww. People don't drink Pepsi these days, it ain't the 90's."
};

if (UserSodaChoice >= 1 && UserSodaChoice <= choices.size())
{
    cout << choices[UserSodaChoice - 1];
}
// Else, handle invalid input...

Notice the - 1 when indexing the array. This is because UserSodaChoice ranges from 1 to 5, while the array range is 0 to N-1.

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