I was wondering how you would test for characters. For example (in pseudocode): if persons name equals Jane, print "Welcome Jane" else print "Access denied." In code, I tried this, but it doesn't work cause I can't convert an int to char?

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
   char name[50];
   
   cout << "Enter your name: ";
   cin.getline(name, 49);


   if ( name == //what do I put here? )

      cout << "Welcome " << name << "\n";
   else
      cout << "Access denied.\n";

   return 0;
} 

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You don't have to use the string class, but you can as the post above me says. You can use some functions of the cstring library.

#include <iostream>using namespace std;#include <cstring> //Necessary to use strcmp() functionint main(){     char name[ 50 ];     cout << "Enter your name:";     cin.getline( name, 49 );     if( strcmp( name, "Jane" ) == 0 )          cout << "Welcome " << name << "\n";     else          cout << "Access denied.\n";     return 0;}

[edited by - PoLiSh_Peta on January 5, 2004 3:10:53 AM]