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AgentX4000 (16)
Am new to programming and was facing a problem.
This is not the code I was having trouble with but this explains my issue.
It prints both x and y no matter what I input in a. At the end the result of the cout command tells that "a" is 2 no matter what I input at the start of the program.

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#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
void main()
{
	int a;
	cin >> a;
	if (a = 1)
	{
		cout << "x"<<endl;
	}
	if (a = 2)
	{
		cout << "y"<<endl;
	}
	cout << a;
	system("pause");
}
long double main (999)
You need to use two equals signs (==) to compare for equality.
One equal sign is the assignment operator.
Basically, your code is doing this:
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int a;
cin >> a;
a = 1; // Set a equal to 1
if (a != 0)
    cout << "x" << endl;
a = 2; // Set a equal to 2
if (a != 0)
    cout << "y" << endl;
cout << a; // Prints 2


Also, main should be declared as int main(), not void main().
And technically, you need to #include <cstdlib> to use system().
mobotus (275)
a = 2 -- a is assigned 2

a == 2 is a equal to 2?

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/operators/
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