You cannot use equality/inrquality operator here.
Rather use strcmp() defined in <string.h>
"Brett W. McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On
04 Mar 2007 15:59:52 -0800, len_kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am unable to get the below program to evaluate the string that is
> entered for the name. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong and
> if it is even possible to run an "if" statement and make it evaluate
> a string?
>
> #include <iostream>
> #include <string>
> using namespace std;
> int main()
> { string name;
> cout << "Please enter your name ";
> cin >> name;
> if (name == 'John')
> cout << "Your name is John ";
> else
> cout << "Your name is not John ";
> return 0;
name == "John" <-- use double quotes
you can also use
name.compare("John")
-- Brett
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