Thread: Chaning AM to PM and vice versa

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    Chaning AM to PM and vice versa

    Hello once again,

    So here is the part of my code I am having a problem with:

    Code:
    if (daynight=="AM" && hour == 12 && minute ==00)
               {
                  strcpy(daynight, "PM");
               }
               
               if (daynight=="PM" && hour ==12 && minute ==00)
               {
                  strcpy(daynight, "AM");
               }
    So what I essentially get is :

    11:58PM
    11:59PM
    12:00PM
    12:01PM

    when the latter two should be AM.

    Can someone please help me with this? Thank you so much

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    You can't compare strings with "==". Use strcmp(), or in your case, you could hard-code the toggling of 'A' and 'P'.

    example:
    Code:
    if (hour == 12 && minute == 0) {
        if (daynight[0] == 'A') {
             daynight[0] = 'P';
        } else {
             daynight[0] = 'A';
        }
    }
    Or something like that.
    Last edited by memcpy; 04-19-2012 at 09:31 PM.

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    Thank you so very much. with your tip to use strcmp and some examples from google, I changed my code to the following and it worked great..

    Code:
               if (strcmp(daynight,"AM") && hour == 12 && minute ==00)
               {
                  strcpy(daynight, "PM");
               }
               
               if (strcmp(daynight,"P M") && hour ==12 && minute ==00)
               {
                  strcpy(daynight, "AM");
               }

    Thank you so much. You saved me.

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