Thread: strcmp

i have assigned a character array of 10 to hold a password.

then i ask for the user to input a password and then compares the new password with the original to validate its authenticity.

However i cant get strcmp to retun 0 (zero) although the new password is entered exactly like the old one.

The while loop simply outputs *'s to the screen instead of echoing the password entered....i dont know if its the problem...


char original_password[10]="member";

char new_password[10];

cout<<"enter your password\n";
int i = 0;

while( ( temp_mem_password[i] = getch() ) != '\r' )
{
cout << "*";

i++;
}


compare=strcmp(mem_password,temp_mem_password);
cout<<"compare:"<<compare;

1. getch(); returns a keycode -> that is a number!

Code:

int temp;
	int compare;
	string original_password="member"; 

	string new_password; 

	cout<<"enter your password\n"; 
	int i = 0; 

	while( ( temp = getch() ) != '\r' ) 
	{ 
		new_password += char(temp); //convert to character
		cout << "*"; 
		i++; 
	}
	if(original_password == new_password)
		cout<<"correct!";

You need to use an if statement here with the '==' operator because strcmp does not like the two different types of strings. However the code works fine. If you have any questions just ask.