Thread: Help with "cin" in C++

Hello, I am somewhat I newbie to C++ programming and I require some help with this. I am writing a simple organizer program but I run into a problem: I run it and it gives me the main menu, and I enter an option, but then it just blows off the option number and gives me the next function in the code. Here is the code:

life.cpp

Code:

#include <iostream.h>
#include "menu.cpp"
using namespace std;
int main()
{
	int answerget;
	startmenu();
	cin >>answerget;
	if (answerget = "1")
			contactsmenu();
	if (answerget = "2")
			notepadmenu();
	if (answerget = "0")
			cout << "\nGood Bye\n";
			return 0;
}

main.cpp

Code:

void startmenu()
{
	cout << "\nWelcome to Life V.00001";
	cout << "\n Select option number:";
	cout << "\n[1]Contacts";
	cout << "\n[2]Notepad";
	cout << "\n[0]Quit\n";
}

void contactsmenu()
{
	int contactmget;
	cout << "\n CONTACTS--";
	cout << "\n\n[A]List Contacts";
	cout << "\n[B]Add Contact";
	cout << "\n[C]Edit Contact";
	cout << "\n[Q]MainMenu\n";
	cin >> contactmget;
	if ( contactmget = 0)
			startmenu();
}

void notepadmenu()
{
	int notepadmget;
	cout << "\n NOTEPAD--";
	cout << "\n\n[1]New File";
	cout << "\n[2]Open File";
	cout << "\n[0]MainMenu\n";
	cin >> notepadmget;
	if ( notepadmget = 0)
			startmenu();
}

Can anyone help me out?