C++ help needed

I am doing a project that will calculate the area and perimeter of square, triangle, and cirlce.

What I am having trouble with is this. I need the program to ask the user if he he/she want to selct circle, square of triangle, and then it should ask them to select area or perimeter.

I am thinking a simple console::write statement(select circle)

or something like that if  you know anything about c++ the help would be very thankful.

Find a forum that specialises in programming languages ur gonna get much more to the point responses most likely, thats what i did when i was ding my computing project last yera. Jus post a question and some dude will reply to it. =]

Ugh, I know C, and I know java, but I\'m not sure exactly about C++.  

I know in C I would just do a printf asking them to type in the name of the shape, then a scanf that I would prolly have jsut read the first letter, if it\'s just a simple assignment.  If a c, use the circle, etc.  Then the same for area or perimeter.  But I don\'t know if C++ does it the same way.

aww, isn\'t this cute ^_^ I\'ve got a program + the source code that\'ll give you just what you need. take a look:

http://www.sheepsheet.com/_programming/crypto/crypto.htm

it\'s not a simple area finder, but it does demonstrate how the command line console can be used for these sorts of things. I just used a switch statement inside a loop to give the user a choice of one of three options. ^_^

check out the crypt.cpp link on the navbar.

Ha, nope, not the same as C at all.  Oh well, I tried

C++ is the object oriented extension of C. the switch statement isn\'t even an object oriented thingamabob. I\'m purdy sure it\'s in C. purdy much everything in C++ is in C, except support for classes.

Well, I\'m pretty new to C.  So that\'s prolly why.  I did a similar assignment to the one he\'s talking about in C, so I was just saying how I tackled it.  So odds are you\'re right

thanks avatarr.

Shockwave I am using visual studio and microsoft has completely change alot of the coding in visual studio we don\'t have to use printf anymore.

Oh, well, rock then  I\'m glad you got it though.