Please read my thread, need help

[csharp]

Hello,

I am writing a program in C++ using VS 2010

the program should do the following

"1-prompt the user to input a lower case letter
2-try to input a lower case letter
3-c&d (complain and die) if the input fails
4-c&d if the input isn’t a lower case letter
5-Tell the user whether his letter is in the first half of the alphabet (a-m) or the second half(n-z)"

and here is what I have done so far,

char x;
	

	cout <<"Give me a lower case letter: ";
	cin >> x;

	if( !cin )  die( "Invalid input" );
	if( x < 'a' || x > 'z' )  die( "That's not in the range of lower case letters" );


	if (x >= 'a' && x <= 'm');
	cout <<"That is in the first half of the alphabet "  << x <<endl;
	else
	cout <<"That is in the second half of the alphabet " << x <<endl;

I am stuck in No. 5

[Smac89]

How are you stuck? You seem to have implemented No.5 already

[csharp]

Error 3 error C2181: illegal else without matching if c:\documents and settings\fadi sheikh elias\my documents\visual studio 2010\projects\labhw\labhw.cpp 25 1 LabHw

[wildblue]

if (x >= 'a' && x <= 'm');

Remove the semicolon ; at the end of the if condition.

[csharp]

I don't know if it's Ok.

the other half of the question is to find.

"prompt the user to input a digit
try to input the digit into a char variable (not an unsigned variable)
c&d if the input fails
c&d if the char isn’t a digit
output the cube of the number the digit represents"

I am not sure if I answered it right

int y;

cout <<"Input digit: ";
cin >> y;

y = static_cast<char>(y);

if (!cin) die("input fails");
if ( y > 6e15 ) die("out of range");

cout << y <<"cubed is " << y*y*y <<endl;

[giblit]

try to input the digit into a char variable (not an unsigned variable)

Look at line 1. Notice have you have int instead of char?
line 6 not sure what you are trying to do. Think you have it backwards. Also it should probably be after validating input.

line 9 it doesn't ask if it is out of range it asks if the character is not a digit. eg y < '0' or y > '9'.

[csharp]

it didn't work

by the way mine worked but not sure if right or not

[giblit]

what didn't work? How do I know what you tried :P

[csharp]

finally I figured it out it was a mess

[csharp]

st4

didn't get it

[giblit]

ignore them. They are one of the spammers that keep appearing on this site.

[csharp]

Anyway guys thanks for any help