comparing two different strings question?

chosen1 (18)
i have a program and was wondering if i could compare a variable of type firstword[4] to just word.
Example if(firstword[4]=secondword); i am writing hangman game and if the first word when its guessed completely and is same as secondword which is word to be guessed i want it to print congrats, else if not equal then print you lose
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void guessword(string word)
{
    char letter;
    int position;
    
    string blankword[4];
    blankword[0] = "_ ";
    blankword[1] = "_ ";
    blankword[2] = "_ ";
    blankword[3] = "_ ";
    
   
       
     for (int i=0;i<6;i++)
     {
     cout << "What letter would you like to guess?";
     cin >>letter;
     
     position = word.find(letter);
     if (position > word.length())
        cout<<letter<< " is not in the word "<<endl;
     else 
     {
        cout<< letter << " is in the word"<<endl;
        if(position==0)
        {
         blankword[0] = letter;
         cout<<blankword[0]<<blankword[1]<<blankword[2]<<blankword[3];
        }
        else if(position==1)
        {
         blankword[1] = letter;
         cout<<blankword[0]<<blankword[1]<<blankword[2]<<blankword[3];
        }
        else if(position==2)
        {
         blankword[2] = letter;
         cout<<blankword[0]<<blankword[1]<<blankword[2]<<blankword[3];
        }
        else if (position==3)
        {
         blankword[3] = letter;
         cout<<blankword[0]<<blankword[1]<<blankword[2]<<blankword[3];
        }
     
     }

     }
   
     
   
}


it loops through and the guesses are entered into the blankword variable if the letter is in the word.
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Faldrax (324)
Hi, yes you can compare an element in an array to a variable of the element type
So
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string aSimpleString;
string anArrayOfStrings[4];
...
if (aSimpleString==anArrayOfStrings[2])
..

is fine.

Note that where you have a series of if's on the same variable as in your code, a switch statement is often a good alternative.
See http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/control.html - switch is discussed at the bottom of the page.
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