I keep getting an extra prompt, how can I declare my variables inside of my for loop?

Question

// Sample program to demonstrate pre=test loop
// CSCI 1010 Practice Problems 6

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
double number1, smallnumber, count, limit;

cout << "How many numbers would you like to enter" << endl;
cin >> limit;
cout << "Enter a number or enter (-1) to exit the program " << endl;
cin >> smallnumber;
if (smallnumber != -1)
{

for (count = 0; count <= limit; count++)
{

cout << "Enter a number or enter (-1) to exit the program " << endl;
cin >> number1;
if (number1 < smallnumber)
{
smallnumber = number1;
}

}

}

cout << smallnumber << endl;

system("pause");
return 0;

Answer 1

As I understood, what you wish to do is read n entries of data or till -1 is encountered.

In your loop, count goes from 0 to n, thus loop runs for n+1 terms. So either make count start from 1 (for(int count = 1;count <= n;count ++)) or set count less than n (for(int count = 0;count < n;count ++))