Please look this cpp code.

Question

https://code.sololearn.com/cW8jNRs7r9Dn/?ref=app
if I enter less than 5 inputs it generates some random numbers. why?

Answer 1

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4137239/garbage-values-in-c-c

Answer 2

Simply because it takes some garbage value.
You asked the user to enter 5 numbers in the array. Now a memory location is allocated for 5 members.
If u enter less than 5 elements, the remaining places are filled with some garbage value.
To avoid this u can either generalize the code to n elements or you can use a counter to count the actual number of elements the user entered(if less than 5) and print upto the counter limit only.

Answer 3

Well what I was thinking would work is not actually happening here.
Actually this was the method i used while using arrays in C language.
In C you have to have give some length to the array even before the user enters something and therefore I used the counter method there!
This will not work that easy in C++
I thought we could use the length(); function to calculate the array length, but that too is not possible since u have already set the limit to 5.
So the last option left is to generalize the code to n.
Though.. I will still try to tell u some method to do that anyway

Answer 4

@infinity I know how to generalise it for n
but I don't know how about counter limit.
can you tell me, how to do that.

Answer 5

@infinity°°
Hey, just try your code with no input.
i.e click run then click submit, without clicking any value, it gives a random output.

Answer 6

even when there are two inputs there are garbage numbers appearing.
Ahh! I need your help again.