Thread: New to c++, need some help.

Hi, I've been trying to make a very simple text game, but I can't get it to work, the program gets stuck in the while loop, simply repeating the cout"invalid command" line, and i cant for the life of me figure out why:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>




using namespace std;


int main()


{




string option1;








cout<<"What would you like to do?\n";
cout<<"walk to door";
cout<<"\nwalk to chest";
getline(cin, option1, '\n');




 while (option1 != "walk to door" "walk to chest" ) {
     cout<<"Invalid command, please reenter:  \n";
     getline(cin, option1, '\n');
 }




 if (option1 == "walk to door") {
  cout<<"You walk towards the door";
 }


  else {
   cout<<"You walk towards the chest";
  }
cin.ignore();
}

I greatly appreciate any help you can offer

The problem is that your while statement is malformed:

Code:

while (option1 != "walk to door" "walk to chest" )

In C/C++ the condition statement can not be compounded, you must use the logical operators to combine two or more conditions. And each condition must have a complete comparison.

Code:

while (option1 != "walk to door" && option1 != "walk to chest" )

Note: The above code may not be using the correct logical operator for your solution.

Jim

That's it!
Thanks you so much Jim!