Thread: Simple question with programming

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    Exclamation Simple question with programming

    Im trying to make a simple program in console to ask what you would like to do. and you answer and the program check the answer and if it is "this" then it will say something but anything else will say something else.

    this is the actual details of the problem

    /////////

    char Question = ''; <------idk what to assign here to correct tell it to grab.

    Code:
    cout << "What would you like to do first?\n";
     cin >> Question;
                                   if ( Question == 'sleep' )
    			{
    			cout << "Goodnight then" << endl;
    		                qQ = true;   <---- just a boolean to tell the computer to stop looping
    			}
    			
    		else
    cout << "I don't know what " << Question << " is." << endl;
    		}
    the format might look wrong but when i run it states the question and i put fly
    ive got it on a loop until the right answer is said but when i put wrong answer i get this

    it says
    i dont know what f is.
    i dont know what l is.
    i dont know what y is.

    i think im using the wrong assigment CHAR. is there something else i can use to store whatever the user puts in cin? sorry if this is confusing. hope you can help!

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    A char only holds one character, you should include the header <string> at the start of your program and change the 'Question' variable to 'string', a string will hold more than one letter, which is what you want in this case.

    Also, the 'sleep' in the if statement should be enclosed by quotation marks, like this:
    Code:
    if ( Question == "sleep" )
    How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.

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    thanks that worked perfectly

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