question about strings

[mmongoose]

im relatively new to C++, but have a general idea of the basics.
Anyway, what ive been trying to do is make a program that can do a basic form of conversation, by searching for certain keywords in input from the user, however, i am having trouble getting the hang of searching within input for certain keywords.
i have only just started by getting it to say hello, should a user enter a string containing the word hi.
The problem that occurs is that the first time, if you enter hi, it would reply, but from then on, if you say hi, it doesnt reply. However, it would reply if you have at least two characters before the word hi. does anyone know why this happens? and if so, how i can solve the problem?
Here is my program so far:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string talk;
    int search;
    while(1==1)
    {
               getline(cin, talk, '\n');
               search = talk.find("hi",0);
               if (search >= 0)
               {          
                          cout<<"hello";
               }
               cin.get();
               cin.get();
    }
}

[major_small]

it's the cin.get()'s you have there... here's what your code should look like:

#include <iostream>
//#include <fstream>    //used for File I/O - you don't need it here
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
        string talk;
        int search;
        for(;;) //this is the best way to write an infinite loop
        {
                getline(cin, talk, '\n');
                search = talk.find("hi",0);
                if (search >= 0)
                {
                        cout<<"hello\n";        //put a newline to seperate
                                                //input from output
                }
                //cin.get();    //what were these for?
                //cin.get();
        }
        return 0;       //you should return 0 at the end of main
}

here's another way it could be done (note the use of strstr in the conditional)

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

int main()
{
        std::string talk;
        for(;;) //this is the best way to write an infinite loop
        {
                getline(std::cin, talk, '\n');
                if (strstr(talk.c_str(),"hi"))  //enter this block if "hi" is found in talk
                {
                        std::cout<<"hello\n";   //put a newline to seperate input from output
                }
        }
        return 0;       //you should return 0 at the end of main
}

[mmongoose]

the cin.get()'s are a problem?
hmmm they are there because i put them there to stop the program from closing... ohhhh i see the problem now.
1) they're not at the end of the program where they should be and
2) i dont need them at all because there is an infinite loop in the program

sorry, force of habit

[laserlight]

You're not using talk.find() correctly, methinks.
Perhaps something like this:

int main() {
	for (;;)
	{
		string talk;
		getline(cin, talk);
		if (talk.find("hi") != string::npos)
		{
			cout << "hello\n";
		}
	}
}

Of course, at the moment your program will respond with "hello" if someone calls it hideous. Oh well.

[mmongoose]

dont worry, it works now (and has about 30 words and 15 phrases), and im not too worried about the hideous thing.