Thread: Oh god help me

So I'm in class right now, using Visual C++ 6. I'm so close to finishing this module, but I need to know how to make a variable that holds two characters. What the goal of the program is, is to take the users province in two characters, then determine which area it's in (ie. Western provinces). I don't need anything too hardcore, because this is just supposed to b a simple project.

Code:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <string.h>

void main() {

	char sProv;

	cout << "Please enter you Province: ";
	cin >> sProv;	//Get the province that the usProver isProv from	
	cout << sProv;

	if (sProv == 'ab') {
		cout << "\nYou're in the Western provinces.\n" << endl;
	}
	else if (sProv == 'on') {
		cout << "\nYou're in the Eastern provinces.\n" << endl;
	}
	else if (sProv == 'nb') {
		cout << "\nYou're in the Atlantic provinces.\n" << endl;
	}	
}

This here doesn't work. All it does it gets the first character, obviously, but I don't know how to create strings or modify the char variable if that's what's needed. If you help fast, maybe I can start the next module today :P

The proper way to do this in modern C++ is to use the C++ string class. However, your code uses out-dated and non-standard headers, which makes me think that maybe your class instructor doesn't know or doesn't want you to know how to write standard C++ code.

One simple solution that doesn't involve learning strings is to read in the two characters separately, one at a time, into separate variables. If the first character matches the first character of any of your provinces, then check the second character to see if it also matches.

>> if(sProv=="ab")

That won't work. You cannot compare C-style strings with ==.

Oo, okay. Well, I tryed your answer jmd, however now I'm getting the error:

Code:

error C2446: '==' : no conversion from 'const int' to 'char *'
        Conversion from integral type to pointer type requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast

So when I take away the second '=', I get:

Code:

error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'const int' to 'char [256]'
        There are no conversions to array types, although there are conversions to references or pointers to arrays

Any ideas?

You...

...are a god! Thank you so much .