I need some help regarding logical 'or' operator, if-else conditions and strings.

Question

First read my following program :-
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main () {
string a,b = "Hi user";
cin>>a;
if (a == "Hello"){
cout<<b;
}
else if(a == "Hey"){
cout<<b;
}
return 0;
}

It's just an example of some code I've been doing and it worked well ,but I just want to make it more compact and reliable in case of more conditional strings,so I did the following :-

if(a == "Hey" || "Hello"){
cout<<b;
}
But unfortunately, it didn't worked.
Please help me out in this.

Answer 1

if (a == "Hey"||a == "Hello") {
cout<<b;
}

Answer 2

unfortunately Your method is not supported - some days i had the sam problem.
other tip is to use a regullar expressions (if exiats like in java)
i'm condused why a==(x||y) not works...

Answer 3

Thank you ValentinHacker. It worked smoothly :)

Answer 4

have you tried dipping it in rice?