Beginner needs help with password program

[dnottus]

The problem I am having is that my program is not recognizing my password and when I enter the wrong password three times the program prints the "Wrong, try again" message before it prints the "See system administrator" message. Any help would be appreciated. My code is as follows:

// Password Program

#include<iostream.h>

int main()
{
const int MAX=80;
char password[MAX];
int count=0;
cout<<endl;
cout<<"Enter a password to gain access to the Calendar Program:";
cout<<endl;

while (count<3)
{
cin.getline(password,MAX,'\n');

if (password=="secret")
count=99;
else
{
cout<<"\nWrong password, please try again.\n";
count++;
}
}

if (count==99)
cout<<"Welcome to the Calendar Program";

if (count==3)
cout<<endl;
cout<<"\nSee your system administrator";
cout<<endl;
cout<<endl;
cout<<endl;
return 0;
}

[ihsir]

//if (password=="secret")

this wont work, you'll have to use strcmp() in string.h

basic structure --

if( strcmp(password,"secret")==0 )
 cout<<"ACCESS GRANTED";
else
 cout<<"ACCESS DENIED";

[golfinguy4]

Or you could use strings from <string> include file and you could use the == operator.

[Inquirer]

I don't know if it is possible, but overloading the == operator for char* may do the trick... just have the explicit and implicit operators be compared by strcmp() in the overload function

[ErionD]

if (count==3)
cout<<endl;
cout<<"\nSee your system administrator";
cout<<endl;
cout<<endl;
cout<<endl;
return 0;

Wont you need brackets for this if statement?
I believe that it will only do the cout << endl; there but im not sure....

[Nor]

Wont you need brackets for this if statement?
I believe that it will only do the cout << endl; there but im not sure....

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson2.html

The structure of an if statement is as follows:
if (TRUE)
Do whatever follows on the next line.

To have more than one statement execute after an if statement that evaluates to true, use brackets.

For example:
if (TRUE)
{
Do everything between the brackets.
}

[Manish Shrestha]

#include<iostream.h>
#include<string>
int main()
{
const int MAX=6;
string password;
int count=0;
cout<<endl;
cout<<"Enter a password to gain access to the Calendar Program:";
cout<<endl;

do
{
cin>>password;
cout<<"\n";
if (password=="secret")
{
count=99;

}else
{
cout<<"\nWrong password, please try again.\n";
count++;
}
}
while (count<3);

if (count==99)
cout<<"Welcome to the Calendar Program";

if (count==3)
cout<<endl;
cout<<"\nSee your system administrator";
cout<<endl;
cout<<endl;
cout<<endl;
return 0;
}