Thread: Beginner help with boolean operators.

Hello, I just started learning C++ following the online tutorials on this site. It's all gone very smooth until I tried using boolean operators. Following the tutorial I'm now at Cprogramming.com Tutorial: If Statements and I've written the following code:

Code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()

{
    int a;

    cout << "Write either 1, 2, or 3: ";
    cin >> a;

    if ( a == (2 || 3) )

    {
        cout << "You entered 2 or 3.";
    }

    else

    {
        cout << "You entered 1.";
    }

    cin.get();
    cin.ignore();

    return 0;

}

The way I understood it I should be able to use "if ( a == ( 2 || 3 ) ) " to make it write out the if command if "a" gets the value 2 or 3, but as of now, if I enter 1 it writes the if command. If i enter any other value it writes the else command.
Edit: Didn't quite preview enough.

(2||3) evaluates to 1...

a == 1 will be true only when you've entered 1 for the value of 'a'.

You want to use:

Code:

if ( a == 2 || a == 3 )