Why is my while loop ending?

Question

It doesn't matter whether I put Y or N, my program ends after I answer "More meat?" I'm expecting it to return the response to the loop.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    char response = 'y';
    double price;
    double total = 0;
    while (response == 'Y' || 'y') {

        cout << "Please enter price of meat: ";
        cin >> price;

        total += price;

        cout << "More meat? (Y/N)";
        cin >> response;
        return response;
    }
    cout << "Your total is: " << total;

    return 0;

}

Answer 1

while (response == 'Y' || 'y') {

should be

while (response == 'Y' || response ==  'y') {

Also

return response;

exits the whole function (main). You don't need it.

---

I'm expecting it to return the response to the loop

You don't need to ( return is used for returning a value from a function, terminating its execution). So, after } of the loop, the next executed line will be while ( condition ) .... If condition is evaluated to false, the loop will stop and the next executed line will be the one, after the loop's }.

Answer 2

Your indentation is broken, as is your while() test and you have a spurious return statement:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{

    char response = 'y';
    double price;
    double total = 0;
    while (response == 'Y' || response == 'y') {

        cout << "Please enter price of meat: ";
        cin >> price;

        total += price;

        cout << "More meat? (Y/N)";
        cin >> response;
    } // end while
    cout << "Your total is: " << total;

    return 0;
} // end main()

(Using do ... while() would be slightly neater as well as you wouldn't need to initialize response to 'y').