Error message saying expected main function before for

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So, my simple program calculates an employees total salary which is $200 + commission. The commission is 9% of their gross sales. So, the program asks for the gross sale of an employee and keeps asking until I use sentinel to stop.

Then I display the number of people that recieved salaries in a certain set of range, and then use asterisks to mark how many people recieved salaries in said range. Finally I also display the total salary by adding recieved salary and total commission by adding all the commissions. Code below:

#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
using namespace std;

const int SENTINEL = -1;

int main(){

int salary = 200, total_salary_employee, total_salary=0, gross, commission, total_commission=0, counter[9];
int i;



while(gross != SENTINEL){

    cout << "Enter gross sale for employee (-1 to stop): ";
    cin >> gross;

    if(gross == SENTINEL) break;

    if(gross < SENTINEL){
        cout << "\nError!\nPlease enter a correct value.\n" << endl;
        continue;
    }

    else{

        commission =  0.09 * gross;
        total_salary_employee = salary + commission;

        total_salary += total_salary_employee;
        total_commission += commission;

        if((total_salary > 200) && (total_salary < 300)){
            counter[1] += 1;
        }
        else if((total_salary >= 300) && (total_salary < 400)){
            counter[2] += 1;
        }
        else if((total_salary >= 400) && (total_salary < 500)){
            counter[3] += 1;
        }
        else if((total_salary >= 500) && (total_salary < 600)){
            counter[4] += 1;
        }
        else if((total_salary >= 600) && (total_salary < 700)){
            counter[5] += 1;
        }
        else if((total_salary >= 700) && (total_salary < 800)){
            counter[6] += 1;
        }
        else if((total_salary >= 800) && (total_salary < 900)){
            counter[7] += 1;
        }
        else if((total_salary >= 900) && (total_salary < 1000)){
            counter[8] += 1;
        }
        else{
            counter[9] += 1;
        }

    }


};

cout << "----------------------------------------------------------------------";
cout << "\n" << endl;
cout << "Element\t\t" << "# of Persons\t\t" << "Histogram";
cout << "\n";
cout << "$200 - $299\t\t" << counter[1] << "\t\t" << for(i = 0; i < counter[1]; i++){ cout << "*"; };
cout << "\n";
cout << "$300 - $399\t\t" << counter[2] << "\t\t" << for(i = 0; i < counter[2]; i++){ cout << "*"; };
cout << "\n";
cout << "$400 - $499\t\t" << counter[3] << "\t\t" << for(i = 0; i < counter[3]; i++){ cout << "*"; };
cout << "\n";
cout << "$500 - $599\t\t" << counter[4] << "\t\t" << for(i = 0; i < counter[4]; i++){ cout << "*"; };
cout << "\n";
cout << "$600 - $699\t\t" << counter[5] << "\t\t" << for(i = 0; i < counter[5]; i++){ cout << "*"; };
cout << "\n";
cout << "$700 - $799\t\t" << counter[6] << "\t\t" << for(i = 0; i < counter[6]; i++){ cout << "*"; };
cout << "\n";
cout << "$800 - $899\t\t" << counter[7] << "\t\t" << for(i = 0; i < counter[7]; i++){ cout << "*"; };
cout << "\n";
cout << "$900 - $999\t\t" << counter[8] << "\t\t" << for(i = 0; i < counter[8]; i++){ cout << "*"; };
cout << "\n";
cout << "$1000 and above\t\t" << counter[9] << "\t\t" << for(i = 0; i < counter[9]; i++){ cout << "*"; };

cout << "\nTotal salary: " << total_salary;
cout << "\nTotal commission: " << total_commission;



return 0;

}

Problem I'm having says:

[Error] expected primary-expression before 'for'

and

[Error] expected ';' before 'for'

and

[Error] expected ';' before ')' token

Expected output:

Element..............# of person..............Histogram

$200-$299...............8...........................********

and the list goes on like that. The number 8 is only an example and the dots are to show that the output is in table form I don't know how to space them properly using this editor.

Can you please show me where and what my mistake is? And what would be a better and shorter way to write this?

asked 46 secs ago

nisyedlah

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Error message saying expected main function before for