Need help about declaring names

[xthehunterz]

Needs help about strings and if and else .


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

int main ()
{
string mystr;
cout << "What's your name? ";
getline (cin, mystr);
if(mystr==john)
cout<<"Hi bro";
else
cout << "Hello " << mystr << ".\n";
cout << "What is your favorite team? ";

return 0;



Was trying to make a program which should say "Hi bro" to john and hello to any else,but when i try this if thing,it gives an error saying that john was not declared.Please help.

[jlb]

Where have you defined your variable named john?

[vlad from moscow]

I think you meant

if ( mystr == "john" )

[xthehunterz]

ty vlad,i forgot to use "" =P,tyvm