im stuck, cant fix..HELP

I have written a small game program text program using
if and else commands.

when i compiled it i got this message:

" C++ forbids comparison between pointer and integer"

below is the error line of my code:

if (attack =="y") {

its really got me as the rest of my program is fine.
does anyone know what the error means??

"y" is a string literal and considered a pointer for purposes of the comparison in that bit of code. You can't test for equality in the manner you are trying to do it. If you are testing C-style strings (characters array) you need to use the strcmp function. If you are using C++ string containers then you can do it as you have it. If you are just testing for a single character, you can do this:

Code:

char attack;
...
if( attack == 'y' )

Make sure your attack variable is an appropriate type to be comparing in the test.

thanks hk_,mp!! it works great!! one more question, when the player takes the hit, is there any way of displaying it on the screen, here is my example:

int PlayerH = 10; // declare varible

// you get hit so

PlayerH=PlayerH-5;

how do i display on the screen that there is only 5 helf points left??

any help would be greatly appriciated

cout<<"You have "<<PlayerH<<" points left.";