i keep getting errors i dont understand

[YvngSavage]

My code is the following:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

{
string password;
string correctpassword="Billy";
cout<<"Please enter password."<<endl;
cin>>password;
if (password=correctpassword)

}

else

{
cout<<"Sorry,incorrect password"<<endl;
}



i keep getting these errors:||=== Build: Debug in Password (compiler: GNU GCC Compiler) ===|
D:\My Documents\Password\main.cpp|6|warning: character constant too long for its type [enabled by default]|
D:\My Documents\Password\main.cpp|4|error: expected unqualified-id before '{' token|
D:\My Documents\Password\main.cpp|13|error: expected unqualified-id before 'else'|
||=== Build failed: 2 error(s), 1 warning(s) (0 minute(s), 0 second(s)) ===|


i have tried to debug this program, but i am very new to c++ so i do not know exactly where to look. I am wondering if anyone would be able to help me find the errors and how to correct them in the future. Thanksv

[TarikNeaj]

Hey and welcome. Please use code tags for all your code - http://www.cplusplus.com/articles/jEywvCM9/

if (password=correctpassword)
= is an assignment operator. You want the equal to operator, which is ==.

if (password == correctpassword)

[YvngSavage]

Thanks Tarik, i was not aware of that. I implemented the code tags and i am now getting only one error and that is :

D:\My Documents\Password\main.cpp|14|error: expected unqualified-id before 'else'|

Im dont even know what the error ^ means... Could it be referring to the correctpassword variable?

[TarikNeaj]

Oh yea I see the problem now, your if statement is missing it's opening bracket.

if (password=correctpassword)
{ // You don't have one of those

}

[YvngSavage]

SO, are you saying need to put { before my if statement like { if (password == correct password) }

[TarikNeaj]

What? Look at the piece of code I gave you, does it look like it is before the if statement? It's clearly after.

[YvngSavage]

Okay i see what you are saying. This is now the code that i have...

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string password;
string correctpassword="Billy";
cout<<"Please enter password."<<endl;
cin>>password;

if (password == correctpassword);
{

}

else

{
cout<<"Sorry,incorrect password"<<endl;
}

Im now getting these errors, im sorry the run around, like i stated previously im very new the c++

||=== Build: Debug in Password (compiler: GNU GCC Compiler) ===|
D:\My Documents\Password\main.cpp||In function 'int main()':|
D:\My Documents\Password\main.cpp|16|error: 'else' without a previous 'if'|
D:\My Documents\Password\main.cpp|20|error: expected '}' at end of input|
||=== Build failed: 2 error(s), 0 warning(s) (0 minute(s), 1 second(s)) ===|

[TarikNeaj]

I'll respond as soon as you edit your post and use code tags like I told you to.

[S G H]

Your code still doesn't look like TarikNeaj's.
You have an extra semicolon.

[YvngSavage]

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string password;
string correctpassword="Billy";
cout<<"Please enter password."<<endl;
cin>>password;

if (password == correctpassword)
{

}

else

{
cout<<"Sorry,incorrect password"<<endl;
}

[YvngSavage]

i have now figured my problem, thanks for helping.