Thread: Is this if/strcmp correct?

Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom

*yawn*

I'm going to cherish the moment.

If you reread the posts, you'll see that I asked what the OP meant by "continue past". He then replied with this:

Code:

if x isn't "x" or "y" or "z" then
....
else
.....

Implying HE WANTS TO ENTER THE STATEMENT if the variable isn't one of the three literals. I also understood "continue past" to skip over the if, then he said he meant to enter into the if. There for, the condition should be correct.

Cherish whatever you like. You're wrong. I dare you to enter input with the code I have provided that doesn't enter the if. It can't be done. There is NO WAY to NOT enter that if with the code you're saying is "correct". Go on, do it. Put anything for an argument to that if check, and have it not enter the if.

Cherish away.


Quzah.

Originally Posted by 3saul

Sorry for causing all of this...as you can see I am a beginner and yes this is what I'm wanting

Code:

if x isn't "x" or "y" or "z" then
printf("%s isn't the same as x or y or z",x)
else
printf("%s is the same as x or y or z",x)

Read your sentence. You don't say "if this isn't that or the this isn't the other thing..." you have to say "if this isn't that and it isn't the other thing...". It has to be and because if you use or it will always evaluate to one of them being true. If it is y then by definition it "is not x". Therefore, "is not x" is true, because it is y. And if it "is x", then it must be "not y". So that's true. Using OR, you will always have one of them "not be" something else.

But hey, no one around here listens to anything I say because I must be stupid or something.


Quzah.

Ah........ .........

You had me looking left and you went right. I thought you weren't able to enter the statement. Quzah is correct. I can still cherish, though. Muahaha... Muah.... muahahahahahhahahaha.

The funny thing is I just answered this very same question in the C++ forum correctly a few days ago. Funny how trying to pay attention to class can make it difficult to properly analyze a question.