'pch' undeclared

Can anyone explain this error? I am trying a return of 2 substrings from one primary string; I thought this was the way to do it. ? :confused: ?

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <string.h>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
char resp1[]="good";
char name[256];


cout<< "Hello, how are you today?\n"<< endl;                   
cin.getline (name,256);

char a * pch;
pch=strstr (name, "good"); //Searching for “good” in  ^ Char str



if(pch !=NULL) //-INSERT // removed ! mark


char b * pch;//-INSERT
pch=strstr (name, "not");//-INSERT

if(pch !=NULL) //-INSERT // removed ! mark


cout<< "I am glad to hear you are doing well today."<< endl;                     
else
cout<< "Is anything wrong at all? Would you like to discuss it? \n"<< endl;                     



Sleep(50000);

return 0;  //END

    }

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Code:

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int main()
{
    char resp1[]="good";
    char name[256];

    cout<< "Hello, how are you today?\n"<< endl;                   
    cin.getline (name,256);

    char a * pch;
    pch=strstr (name, "good"); //Searching for “good” in  ^ Char str

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You have not defined a variable called pch prior to its use in the above code fragment. Perhaps the a variable above is really meant to be pch?

Let's add some actual indentation and see what we get, shall we?

Code:

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int main()
{
    char resp1[]="good";
    char name[256];

    cout<< "Hello, how are you today?\n"<< endl;                   
    cin.getline (name,256);

    char a * pch;
    pch=strstr (name, "good"); //Searching for “good” in  ^ Char str

    if(pch !=NULL) //-INSERT // removed ! mark
        char b * pch;//-INSERT

    pch=strstr (name, "not");//-INSERT

    if(pch !=NULL) //-INSERT // removed ! mark
        cout<< "I am glad to hear you are doing well today."<< endl;                     
    else
        cout<< "Is anything wrong at all? Would you like to discuss it? \n"<< endl;                     

    Sleep(50000);

    return 0;  //END
}

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See those two lines? Remember the proper way to declar a variable?

Code:

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type name = optionalinitialization;

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Now look at what you're doing:

Code:

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char b * pch; //-INSERT

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All of that orange colored stuff is wrong.

Quzah.

The error is caused by not keeping to one thread for the same damn program!

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YAH!
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