combining two ASCII artworks.Why doesn't this work?

Hi everyone, I'm a first year cs student so I don't really know what i'm doing yet. Anyways, one of our assignments is to combine two ASCII pictures (balloon and sunset) together. I have an idea of how to do it:

Code:

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        for (int i=0; i < baloon.length(); i++){
                if  (baloon ==" ")
                        combined[i] = sunset[i];
                else
                        combined [i] = baloon[i];
        }

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This should replace all the empty spaces with the other (sunset) picture, right? But i'm assuming something's wrong with the "if" statement, because all I see when I run the program is the picture of the balloon. The pictures are drawn right into the program btw. I just spent the last 3 hours thinking this through (as much as i like programming, I suck at it.) and trying different loops, because I really wanted to solve it on my own, but I definitely need some assistance. Thanks so much in advance.

You are checking if the entire string named balloon is equal to a string made of a single space.

Character literals go between single quotes and you probably don't want to compare the whole string.

Thankyou for the reply. Is there a way to check individually then, as opposed to the whole balloon string? I tried specifying it earlier, by saying

Code:

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if  (baloon [i] ==" ")

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but all that did was give me an error message.

Single quotes for char-s:

Code:

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if  (baloon [i] ==' ')

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oh. right. Thanks so much for the help! three hours well spent.