Help with CodeCoach Challenge: BallPark Orders

Question

Even though it works fine in the 1st case, it fails to do so in the rest.

Is it possible only with Dictionary?

Edit: 2nd Case -> Cheeseburger Cheeseburger Coke Water

Here is the explanation of the Challange:

/*
You and three friends go to a baseball game and you offer to go to the concession stand for everyone. They each order one thing, and you do as well. Nachos and Pizza both cost $6.00. A Cheeseburger meal costs $10. Water is $4.00 and Coke is $5.00. Tax is 7%.

Task
Determine the total cost of ordering four items from the concession stand. If one of your friend’s orders something that isn't on the menu, you will order a Coke for them instead.

Input Format
You are given a string of the four items that you've been asked to order that are separated by spaces.

Output Format
You will output a number of the total cost of the food and drinks.

Sample Input
'Pizza Cheeseburger Water Popcorn'

Sample Output
26.75
*/
https://code.sololearn.com/ckYcWuHYxU0M/?ref=app

Answer 1

That's odd. Why are you using 'contains' tho. It might be the problem. Your loop is (string i in orders), so use it: if(i == "Nachos") try applying similar syntax to all if elements.

Answer 2

Try:

if(i == "Nachos")
{
sum+=nachos;
}
else if(i == "Pizza ")
{
sum+=pizza;
}
else if(i == "Cheeseburger")
{
sum+=cheeseburger;
}
else if(i == "Water")
{
sum+=water;
}
else
{
sum+=coke;
}

Answer 3

NP, I believe the problem with contains was that if you had two same items in your string, it would have only counted it once.

Answer 4

hey, I'm wayy too late to the party but nevertheless, don't you think it is better to use switch statement if you are going to do if statement with only "=="?

Answer 5

Oh right. Jesus! It's sometimes weird. You look for something else trying to understand what causes an error or miscalculation, and you can't see a simple mistakenly put space somewhere. 😂

Answer 6

Yeah that happens a lot ☺️

Answer 7

Yuh better. But it's not like he's gonna post the code somewhere anyways so it doesn't matter at all .....

Answer 8

menu = {"Pizza": 6, "Cheeseburger": 10, "Water": 4, "Coke": 5}

chois = input()
choise = chois.split()
sum = 0

for i in choise:
if i in menu:
sum += menu[i]
else: sum += 5

print(round((sum*1.07), 2))

Answer 9

It is said in the task that if there is something in the string that is not on the menu, you shall order coke.
So maybe try adding else statement in the loop.

Try this code:

foreach(string i in orders)
{
if(orders.Contains("Nachos"))
{
sum+=nachos;
}
else if(orders.Contains("Pizza "))
{
sum+=pizza;
}
else if(orders.Contains("Cheeseburger"))
{
sum+=cheeseburger;
}
else if(orders.Contains("Water"))
{
sum+=water;
}
else if(orders.Contains("Coke"))
{
sum+=coke;
}
}

Answer 10

Aleksei Radchenkov it definitely worked. Now I'm curious why the 'contains' such a problem in calculations.

Thanks a lot bro :)

Answer 11

Btw remove space in "Pizza " string. (I mean the one at the end), otherwise pizza would cost 5$ 😁

Answer 12

Why is my code working for only the first two cases

arr = input().split(" ")
foodstuff = {
"Nachos": 6.00,
"Pizza": 6.00,
"Cheeseburger": 10.00,
"Water": 4.00,
"Coke": 5.00
}
total = 0
for item in arr:
if item in foodstuff:
total += foodstuff[item]
else:
total += 5
total *= 1.07
print(total)

Answer 13

I did that in my forst try but the thing is, I don't know why but, the machine calculates as if the cheeseburger equaled something higher than 10 instead of its assigned value. And i don't understand why it does that.

Answer 14

it just doesn't pass the other cases, that's all. now I'll focus on that

Answer 15

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main() {
string arr[]={"Nachos","Pizza","Cheeseburger","Water","Coke"};
string err[4];
int cost[]={6,6,10,4,5};
int cos[4];
string r;
int b,p,u=0;
double y;

for(int i=0;i<4;i++){
cin>>err[i];
}
for( u;u<4;u++){
for(int i=0;i<5;i++){
if(err[u]==arr[i]){
cos[u]=cost[i];

}
}

}
for(int i=0;i<5;i++){
if(cos[i]==0){
cos[i]=cost[4];
}

}
for(int i=0;i<4;i++){
b=b+cos[i];
}
y=b+ (((double )b*7)/100);

cout<<y<<endl;
};