Thread: if () commands with char's

Code:

int main()
{

  char Name;

  cout << "Your Name: " << endl;
  cin  >> Name;

    if (Name = ChrisJ)
      {
        system ("cls");
        cout << "Your Name: " << Name "." << endl;
      }

}

I am trying to see if Name = ChrisJ. How do I do it? Whenever I do it like this I get "ChrisJ undeclared (first use this function)".

There are a lot of problems with your code. a) Name is a single character. If you wanted to make it an array, you would've done: char Name[100]; b) The = operator is assignment, not testing for equality. You need to use == for equality. c) ChrisJ is undefined. Who knows what it is? If it was supposed to be a string, you sure left out the quotes...

Ok, we're gonna do it with std::strings because in most cases, they are easier to use than c-strings. Btw, if you cin a string, it will only retrieve the first word. You need to use getline() which you can find in your documentation/google/board if you want to get more than one word from the cin stream.

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string Name;

    cout << "Your Name: " << endl;
    cin  >> Name;

    if (Name == "ChrisJ")
    {
        system ("cls");
        cout << "Your Name: " << Name "." << endl;
    }

    return 0;
}

Code:

#include <string.h>

int main()
{

  char Name[100];

  cout << "Your Name: " << endl;
  cin  >> Name;

    if (strcmp(Name, "ChrisJ") == 0)
      {
        system ("cls");
        cout << "Your Name: " << Name << "." << endl;
      }

}

You're off to a good start. Now I'm going to quote myself.

Originally posted by Speedy5
Btw, if you cin a string, it will only retrieve the first word. You need to use getline() which you can find in your documentation/google/board if you want to get more than one word from the cin stream.

And it looks like you're going to be needing arrays. Instead of:

Code:

string Main_Menu_Command_001;
string Main_Menu_Command_002;
string Main_Menu_Command_003;

You can do this:

Code:

string Main_Menu_Command[3];
Main_Menu_Command[0] = "...";

EDIT: Here's a good quick reference to the std::string class. Just ignore the note on the bottom: http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/comp...cs/string.html