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- ' MAXSALES.BAS
- ' This program reads salesperson data into three arrays and displays
- ' the salesperson with the highest total sales. The maximum number
- ' of names that can be entered is 50; fewer can be entered by
- ' typing "END" for the salesperson name.
-
- OPTION BASE 1 ' set base of all arrays to 1
-
- DIM salesGroup$(50) ' dimension salesGroup$ string array
- DIM bikesSold%(50) ' dimension bikesSold% integer array
- DIM totalSales!(50) ' dimension totalSales! floating-point array
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- CLS
-
- PRINT "Follow prompts to enter bike shop data. Type END to quit."
- PRINT
-
- count% = 1 ' initialize an array counter variable
-
- WHILE (salesGroup$(count%) <> "END") ' continue until name = "END"
- INPUT "Enter salesperson name: ", salesGroup$(count%)
-
- IF (salesGroup$(count%) <> "END") THEN
- INPUT " Bikes sold: ", bikesSold%(count%)
- INPUT " Total sales: $", totalSales!(count%)
- PRINT
- count% = count% + 1 ' increment the array counter
- END IF
- WEND
-
- largest! = totalSales!(1) ' first array element is largest so far
- lg% = 1 ' save array index
-
- ' compare remaining array elements for something bigger--if one is
- ' found, assign it to largest! and save the array index in lg%; if
- ' there is a tie for the largest, return the first element found
-
- FOR i% = 2 TO count% - 1
- IF (totalSales!(i%) > largest!) THEN
- largest! = totalSales!(i%) ' save new largest value
- lg% = i% ' save array index
- END IF
- NEXT i%
-
- ' initialize tmp$, a formatting template for PRINT USING
- tmp$ = "\ \ ### $$####.##"
-
- PRINT
- PRINT "** "; salesGroup$(lg%); " has the highest total sales **"
- PRINT
- PRINT "Salesperson Bikes sold Total sales"
- PRINT "------------------------------------------"
- PRINT
- PRINT USING tmp$; salesGroup$(lg%); bikesSold%(lg%); totalSales!(lg%)
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