i am a 13 year old stuck at this, someone please help me out!!
i have a problem defining a character variable
its giving the error lvalue required
#include <iostream.h>
#include <conio.h>
void main()
{
clrscr();
char name [20];
cin >>" Your name please...", name;
if (name="john") //over here!!!
cout <<"hi ", name;
else
cout <<"sorry!";
}
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Character arrays can not be compared like that. Either use std::string instead of char or call strcmp() to compare the two strings. if( strcmp(name,"John") == 0) strcmp() returns 0 if the two strings are the same.
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