Help me again :/

[Scarvenger]

what is wrong with this?

string name;
                cout<<"Voce deseja procurar os dados de qual pessoa?\nPS:para aparecer todos digite: TODOS\n";
                cin>> name;
                cin.ignore();
                switch ( name ) {

[Dante Shamest]

You can't use a switch statement on name, because it's not an integer.

edit: changed "constant integer" to "integer"

[Scarvenger]

so what would be a integer? and how i could use switch with names?

[Dante Shamest]

Either convert the string to an integer, or use if-else with names instead of switch.

[Scarvenger]

how do i convert the string to an integer? hehehe im sorry for your lost of time helping me :P

[Ancient Dragon]

only strings that contain digits '0', '1', ... '9' can be converted to an integer. Strings such as "Hello World" cannot be converted. If the variable 'name' contains leading digits, then you can use either std::stringstream c++ class, or atoi(). Note: I didn't compile or test this so it might contain sytax errors.

std::string name = "123";
std::streamstring str(name);
int n;
str >> n;
// now n should be the integer 123

[Dante Shamest]

#include <iostream>  // for cin
#include <string>    // for string
#include <sstream>   // for stringstream
using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  cout << "Enter an integer: " ;
  
  // Read a line into a string.
  string line ;
  getline( cin, line );
  
  // Convert the string to an integer.
  stringstream ss( line );
  int i ;
  ss >> i ;
  
  // Conversion succeeded.
  if ( !ss )
  {
    cout << "You did not enter an integer." ; 
  } 
  
  // Conversion failed.
  else
  {
    cout << "You entered " << i << endl ;
  }
  
  cin.get();  
  return 0 ;
}