I'm a C newbie and I can't figure out how to have the user be able to type in a long word instead of a limit to 4 characters; for example:
char a;
cin>>a;
if (a=='alongword')
{
do stuff
}
What's the easiest way to do this?
I'm a C newbie and I can't figure out how to have the user be able to type in a long word instead of a limit to 4 characters; for example:
char a;
cin>>a;
if (a=='alongword')
{
do stuff
}
What's the easiest way to do this?
char a;
A 'char' is a single character. As such, your program should only be acceptign a single character. What you need is an array.
char a[NUMBER];
Replace number with the number of characters you want them to be able to enter, then add one to that number.
Quzah.
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
And read a little more bout the cin. There's also cin.getline
what does signature stand for?
char a;
cout << "enter a single char" << endl;
if(a == 'i')
cout << "you entered the character i" << endl;
char buffer[80];
cout << "enter a single word up to 79 char long" << endl;
//if(buffer == 'alongword') won't work because alongword is a string of char and should be so indicated by using "" not ' '. Also can't use the equality operator on strings, have to use strcmp(), or one of it's relatives.
Use <cstring> header file to manipulate strings. It's got a lot of good functions.
what does signature stand for?
