Thread: File input

it's because you can't compare C-style strings like that... try:

Code:

int main()
{
char word[50];
ifstream file;
file.open("accounts.txt");
file>>word;
if(!strcmpi(word,"blue"))
cout<<"The program works";
else
cout<<"The program does not work";
return 0;
}

by the way: use code tags and format your code...

If you used a std::string instead it would have worked:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>

int main()
{
    std::string word;
    std::ifstream file;
    file.open("accounts.txt");
    file >> word;
    if(word == "blue")
        std::cout << "The program works";
    else
        std::cout << "The program does not work";
    return 0;
}

The reason it doesn't work for character arrays is that the character string "blue" is a string literal and its use in your comparison statement in effect is trying to compare the address of the character array word with the address of that string literal in memory. Those two addresses will NEVER be the same.