Question

You are part of the IT Department at the newly established 200-bed Hospital Puteri Bestari in Ipoh, Perak. The hospital decided to have an in-house inventory system for all of its assets. Write a short program that accepts the inventory tagging number, and store it in a global array named ASSET_NUMBER. The array must be able to store up to 100 assets, and the tagging number is a 7-digit integer. The program should not overwrite existing data in the array, and must first find an empty element before storing the integer at that location.

USE ONLY C++!!

Answer 1

Global variable has global scope. In our given program we will be declaring a global array to store the tagging number

We will also have a counter variable which will help us track the number of elements currently in the array and the next location where the new input should be added.

Solution:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

// array of size 100
int ASSET_NUMBER[100];

int main()
{
    // counter to keep track of index
    int curr = 0;
    
    int tag;
    
    while(true) {
        // get user input of the inventory tag
        cin >> tag;
        
        // store it in the inventory array
        ASSET_NUMBER[curr] = tag;
        
        // increment the counter
        curr++;
    }

    return 0;
}

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