programming challenge

hey all, i'm new so give me a chance ;)

Code:

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int main()
{
  int pass;
  char login;

  cout<<"hey please enter your login: ";
  cin>> login;
  cin.ignore();

  if ( login == john ) {
  cin.get();
  cout<<"welcome john/n";
  }
  cin.get();
}

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what i'm trying to do is make it so you have to have the correct login and if you don't it's says so, but i'm struggling so hard to make

I think i could do it with numbers, but with letters it seems to be completely different, can someone please help me?

Use a 'string' for the variable 'login', and include <string>.

Wrap from right after you ask for the login name, to the end of the cin.get with a while(1) { }, then put a break; in the if statement, and put an else statement on that if statement that cout's "wrong username".

Code:

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#include <string>

int main()
{
  string pass;
  string login;

  cout<<"Hello, please enter your login: ";

  while(1) {
    cin >> login;

    if (login == "john") {
      cout << "Welcome, John/n";
      break;
    } else {
      cout << "Invalid username, sorry./n";
    }

  }

  cin.ignore();
  cin.get();
}

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You could also make the if statement: (login == "john" || login == "John" || login == "JOHN")

thankyou very much, i'm still new to this hehe, by anychance does string mean you can use both int and char in the same or code or am i wrong :S

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Originally Posted by grohyt

thankyou very much, i'm still new to this hehe, by anychance does string mean you can use both int and char in the same or code or am i wrong :S

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Ints hold numbers that you can perform operations on. Chars hold characters (all the keys on your keyboard basicly, something like 255), which includes A-Z, 0-9, !-), <>, [], etc. but are only for display. To hold more than 1 char in a 'char', you declare it an array, char[100], etc. and in C theres some functions you can use to make it accept "blah blah blah 29473 blah 9jblah" as a string you want to hold - its called a c-style string. Then in C++ there is a 'string', which is like a c-style string, but much easier to use. It holds characters, and numbers (but cannot perform operations like 1+1 on the numbers).

Theres a string tutorial on the site if you want to know more about strings, for C or C++. The C++ strings are fun because they are so easy to use, string3 = string1 + string2;, string1 = string1 + "additional words";, etc.