I am new to c++ so bear with me, how do I do an if else statement with a string?

such as

if string == "This is what you type"
cout << "yes";
else
cout << "no";

i tried it and it always just displays my if statement i believe. im not home to look at it at the moment. thanks.

-CG

What type of strings are you using? There are two types: a character string and an STL string. First, the character string. If you have

const char* string = "Not quite";
if (string == "Not quite")
cout << "yes" << endl;
else
cout << "no" << endl;

will always print no since you are just comparing addresses. To compare character strings use the C function strcmp

if (strcmp(string, "Not quite") == 0)
...

If you are using STL strings, you shouldn't name your variable string. Let us call it cs.

std::string cs = "Not quite";
if (cs == "Not quite") ...

In this case it will print yes.