Thread: I'm new to this ;(, whats the problem with this????????

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    Exclamation I'm new to this ;(, whats the problem with this????????

    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    
    using namespace std;
    
    int main()
    {
        char name;
        cout<<"whats your first initial?";
        cin>> name;
        cout<< name;
    }
        int ag
    
         cout<<"how old are you?";
        cin>> age;
        if (age==14)
          cout<<"Really?!?  COOL! hehe i'm 14 too";
        if (age==10)
        {
            char letter;
    
            cout<<"Is this my borhter talking? y/n";
            cin>> letter;
            if (letter==y)
              cout<<"Hiya bro!";
            if (letter==n)
              cout<<"Oh, well my brothers 10 too!";
        }
    }
    I can get numbers to work, but I want to get letters to work, my goal here is to figure out how to make it so a person can answer yes or no(well actually just y or n)

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    Should be:
    Code:
    if (letter=='y')
    ...
    if (letter=='n')
    Note the single quotes around the y and n.
    bit∙hub [bit-huhb] n. A source and destination for information.

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    And match your braces properly!
    If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
    If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.

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    More than half of your code is outside of the int main() { } brackets, and is also not within a function declaration or anything for that matter.

    I highly recommend that you slowly *crawl* through the C++ tutorials on this website. Go slow and understand what the reason/purpose for everything in the syntax is.

    http://www.cprogramming.com/reference/
    Last edited by syneii; 12-06-2010 at 04:06 PM.

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    Thanks everbody. I had only been learning for like I day so there were probably a ton of minor formatting errors, but I didn't know why I couldn't get char's to work, now i do so we are all good.

    P.S. I made an awesome calculator thing, and I soooooo proud of myself, haha

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    Oh wow half my code is outside of the main, haha!

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