Cout / cin / if C++ help??

[MYST]

Hi all,

Im new to this forum, so first up, greetings!

Secondly, ive only recently got into C++ and need a bit of help.

I'm wondering how you can get your console program to recognise variable char's.

For example -

#include <iostream>

int main()

{
	using namespace std;
	int age;
	char name [5];
	
		cout << "Hi, whats your name? \n" ;
	
	cin >> name ;

		cout << " So " << name  << " how old are you? \n";

	cin >> age;

		if (age > 20)

cout << " Great!\n";

else 

cout << " too bad your too young \n ";

		return 0;

}

You can see that the if statement recognises int variables and can decipher whether or not the input from cin is greater than 20.

Is there a way you can use an if statement to, for example decipher between the word yes or no. Or distinguish between 2 names?

It's being written in Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 if that helps

Thanks in advance!

[C++]

Did you mean something like this?

#include <iostream>

int main()

{
	using namespace std;
	int age;
	char name [5];
	
		cout << "Hi, whats your name? \n" ;
	
	cin >> name ;
        
	if (name == "tony")
	 cout << " So " << name  << " how old are you? \n";

	else 
			cout << "Tony is the only acceptable name!";

	cin >> age;

		if (age > 20 )

cout << " Great!\n";

else 

cout << " too bad your too young \n ";

		return 0;

}

[MYST]

Yeah, i did try that and when i compiled it, it didn't work. And i just compiled your code and the only response i could get, is Tony is the only acceptable name.

Even when putting Tony in as the name....

[C++]

Originally Posted by MYST

Yeah, i did try that and when i compiled it, it didn't work. And i just compiled your code and the only response i could get, is Tony is the only acceptable name.

Even when putting Tony in as the name....

Fixed it

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <string>




int main()

{
	using namespace std;
	int age;
	string name ;
	
		cout << "Hi, whats your name? \n" ;
	
	cin >> name ;
    
	if (name == "tony")
		cout << " So " << name  << " how old are you? \n";
	else
		cout << "wrong name";
	
	cin >> age;
 
		if (age > 20)

cout << " Great!\n";

else 

cout << " too bad your too young \n ";

		return 0;

}