how to read the input word in if statement

[justauser]

i want to make a program that asks the user if he is old or young and depends on the answer the program will go in a certain route using if else-if.

  #include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
	{
    int x;
    char young, old;
    cout<<"Are you feeling young or old?\n";
    if(cin>>young)
{ //the rest is going well so i wont write it 
   }
   else if(cin>>old)
{ //the rest }
   else 
{ cout<<"bad boy"}

it seems that whatever i write , the program always go to young and run its code

[cire]

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    char feeling;
    cout<<"Are you feeling young or old?\n";
    cin >> feeling ;

    if(feeling == 'y')
    { //the rest is going well so i wont write it 
    }
    else if(feeling == 'o')
    { //the rest }
    else 
    { cout<<"bad boy"}
}

[ne555]

variable names are meaningless to the compiler.

[justauser]

thanks , i program works now :D