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i was trying to use a if statement so that when you enter yes or no diferent strings come up. i was wondering if you can do that. my code looks like this:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string name;

string hi;
cout << "hello im Cbuddy, what is your name?";
cin >> name;

string answer;
string yes;

cout << "oh hello "; cout << name; cout << " have we met before?" << endl;
cin >> answer;
if(answer==yes){cout<<"oh now i remember you"<<endl};
else{cout<<"oh well its nice to meet you"<<endl};
system ("pause");
return 0;
}
the lines in red are the ones that my debugger found were wrong, although i think the real problem is how i defined answer and yes.
then again im pretty new to c++ so i could be totaly wrong on all this stuff.

[fitzjj]

you have the right idea although == wont work when comparing strings.

My C++ is a bit rusty but i belive you could use strcmp() or stricmp().

if(strcmp(answer, "yes")==0){
     ***
}else{
     ***
}

strcmp returns 0 if they match and something else if they dont, i think 1 or -1 but i'm not sure. I assume it is implemented in C++ it is there in C anyway

[010001100101010]

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string name;

string hi;
cout << "hello im Cbuddy, what is your name?";
cin >> name;

string answer;
string yes;

cout << "oh hello "; cout << name; cout << " have we met before?" << endl;
cin >> answer;

if(strcmp(answer, "yes")==0){
cout << "oh now i remember you" << endl;
}else{
cout << "oh well nice to meet you" << endl;
}

system ("pause");
return 0;
}
im not sure if i did what you said right but now theres an error in the red line and my compiler sais that it cannot convert.

[chog]

i would try your original way just with yes in quotes("yes").

[fitzjj]

my bad, do as chog says and stick the yes in quotes. strcmp will compare char arrays which are the original way to deal with strings in C/C++. Since you are using the <string> library you can use == to compare.

if you need to user strcmp, you also need to #include <stdio.h>

[Cache]

Hi,

The code bellow should work fine, it does for me in Dev-C++:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main() {
    
    string name;
    string hi;
    
    cout << "hello im Cbuddy, what is your name?";
    cin >> name;
    
    string answer;
    string yes;
    
    cout << "oh hello " << name << " have we met before?" << endl;
    cin >> answer;
         if (answer == "yes"){
                cout << "oh now i remember you" << endl;
                } else {
                     cout << "oh well its nice to meet you" << endl;
                     }

system ("pause");
return 0;
}

EDIT: Can anyone tell me how to make a code box on this forum please.

[fitzjj]

[coed] code goes here [/coed]

but obviously with code spelt correctly!

[Cache]

Originally posted by fitzjj
[coed] code goes here [/coed]

but obviously with code spelt correctly!

Ok, thanks alot.

[Cache]

I just noticed the "string yes;" part does nothing and is not needed. I think perhaps you wanted to use that string to compair with the string "answer", right? which is why you never used quotation marks in "if (answer == "yes")". To do that you should have given the string "yes" the value "yes"

string yes = "yes";

EDIT: The line bellow is also useless:

string hi;