Comparing words with contents of a text file

[kienme]

Hi there,
I need a little help with my project.

I want the user to enter the word and I want to check if it exists in a text file or not.

I tried

int flag=0;
char word[50], input[50];

cout<<"Enter word to search for";
gets(input);

ifstream myfile;
myfile.open("Dictionary.txt");
	
while(myfile>>word)
{
    if(word==input)
    {
	flag=1;
	break;
    }
}
	
myfile.close();

if(flag==0)
cout<<"Not found";
	
if(flag==1)
cout<<"Found";

but it does not seem to be working. Should I make changes to it or is there another way?

Thanks

[MiiNiPaa]

what are types of word and input?

[kienme]

Both are char type.

[cire]

It doesn't seem likely they're both of type char.

Perhaps they are of type array of char (or pointers to the same?) In which case, line 8 is comparing the address of word to the address of input, and since they aren't at the same address, the condition will never evaluate to true.

[kienme]

My bad. Both are indeed char arrays.

[coder777]

On line 12 you're comparing pointers not the content. The pointers are always different.

use strcmp():

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstring/strcmp/?kw=strcmp

[kienme]

Ah! That's done the trick. Thanks a ton :)