conversion from "const char*' to 'char'

[M1n1m@l1$t]

I am really new to c++ just started today. This is my first real program (however useless it is) and i am stuck with one error. I am writing my code on code::blocks using mingGW on windows XP. My error is as following-invalid converion from 'const char*'to 'char'. my code is the following.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
    char password;
    char PASSCODE="mypasscode";
    loop:
    cout << "please enter your password:";
    cin >> password;
    if (PASSCODE==password)
    {
        int number;
        int choice;
        cout << "congrats you logged in succesfully";
        loop1:
        cout << "please enter a number";
        cin >> number;
        if (number!=1)
        {
            cout << "you died, too bad";
            cout << "press 1 to play again press 2 to close the program:";
            cin >> choice;
            if (choice=1)
                goto loop2;
            else
                goto loop1;

        }
        if (number=1)
            {
                cout << "congrats you won";
                goto loop2;
            }

    }
    else
    {
        cout << "please try again";
        goto loop;
    }
loop2:
return 0;
}

i looked at the other posts related to this subject but the code was all to complicated for me to understand a scrap of it.

[pseudorandom21]

This is incorrect:

char password;
    char PASSCODE="mypasscode";

Typically you will use for C style strings:

const char *PASSCODE = "mypasscode";

to compare C style strings ( which is an array of characters with a NULL character to signal the end of the string ) you will need to use strcmp().

I'm thinking if you are reading a tutorial it has introduced C style strings in order for you to understand some basics about pointers. It probably also introduced the array, which you will need to use.

Alternatively, there is a C++ "string" class.

[mrnutty]

1) Replace all instance of 'char' with std::string in your program
2) Don't use 'goto', use conditional loops instead. Imagine there were no 'goto' command, how would you restructure your program accordingly?

[M1n1m@l1$t]

replacing the chars with strings worked great. Thanks for the help.