so I made a function which returns a value but how would I be able to print that return value to main? p.s. sorry if my formatting is weird im new here.

int main()
{
        if (options == 3)
        {
            (powerCalculation(base, exponent));

            //cout << powerCalculation(result) << endl;
            //I want to put the result here
            
        }
    return 0;
}

int powerCalculation(int base, int exponent)
{
    int i = 0;

    int result = base;

    while (i <= exponent)
    {
        result = result * base;

        i  ;
    }

    return result;
}

CodePudding user response：

There are two possibilities in main.

1. Save the result in main:

     int result = powerCalculation(base, exponent);
     std::cout << result << std::endl;

2. Print the result directly without storing it

    std::cout << powerCalculation(base, exponent) << std::endl;

CodePudding user response：

solution

You can directly use the function's return value when calling the function. i.e. cout << powerCalculation(2,10) << endl; or int my_result = powerCalculation(base,exponent);

demo

int main(){
    int base=2, exponent=10
    cout << powerCalculation(base, exponent) << endl;
    return 0;
}

int powerCalculation(int base, int exponent){
    int i = 0;
    int result = base;
    while (i <= exponent) {
        result = result * base;
        i  ;
    }
    return result;
}

CodePudding user response：

int powerCalculation(int base, int exponent)
{
    int i = 0;

    int result = base;

    while (i <= exponent)
    {
        result = result * base;

        i  ;
    }
    
    // Add this
    cout << result << endl;

    return result;
}