whats wrong?!?

Hi im trying to make a program that translates $'s into £'s. I tryed typing this but there was a error. PLease can u correct it?

Code:

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#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
      float dollar, pounds;
      cout << "Type in how many dollars you want to translate:  ";
      cin >> dollar;
     
      if( (pounds = 1 )
      cout << "60 pence" << endl;
      else if ( pounds = 2)
      cout << "1 pound twenty pence" << endl;
      else if ( pounds = 3)
      cout << "1 pound eighty pence" << endl;
     
      // The pounds and dollars go om for ages until it goes up to $50
     
      char c;
      cin >> c;
   
      return 0;
}

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use == not = to compare values. = assigns values, == compares in C++

It says that "cout << "60 pence" << endl; " was wrong though! I did put the == in btw

[my two cents]
Also, that's not the most useful program, really. What if I have $1.78?

You should use a formula to convert from dollars to pounds instead.
[/my one pence]

forgive me.

EDIT:

Quote:

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It says that "cout << "60 pence" << endl; " was wrong though!

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What was the error message?

It was "expected `)' before "cout"

if( (pounds = 1 )

You have too many ( in this line.

Code:

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float dollar, pounds;
cout << "Type in how many dollars you want to translate:  ";
cin >> dollar;
     
if( pounds == 1 )

...

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You are reading in a value from the user into the dollar variable and then everything else after that is looking at the pounds variable which is uninitialized at this point. Seems you want to be using dollar instead of pounds in all of those if statements.

Yaay!!! It works now!
ty Shakti!