problems with if and and characters

[mastgraft123]

hello guys i made code cause i wanted to see if could make it read chracters and not numbers, beacuase i know there is another way to make this with something like a menu but the user responds in numbers and i wanted to do some thing diferent xd.

#include<iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
using namespace std;

int main (){

char r [8];

cout<< "is milk white? yes or no?: ";
cin>> r;

if ( 'r'=='no'){

cout<< "im really disappointed"<<endl;
}
else if ('r'=='yes'){

cout<< "im really proud of you"<<endl;
}

else{

cout<< "keep it simple I said yes or no"<<endl;
}

return 0;
}

[E0p9LyTq]

In your if and else statements you are comparing the character 'r' to the characters 'no' and 'yes'. Those comparisons will ALWAYS fail.

[Aceix]

Remove the quotes from 'r' to compare 'yes' and 'no' to the variable r and not a character literal.

Aceix

[Handy Andy]

Hello mastgraft123,

Even removing the single quotes from "r" will not solve your problem because first (yes) and (no) need to be in double quotes. and even then the "==" will not wor with a C style character array. You would need to use the C function "strcmp()" to compare the two.

Another option is to include the header file "string" and define "r" as a std::string and long with enclosing (yes) and (no) in double quotes the "==" will work.

Hope that helps,

Andy