Could someone help me with a bug I'm getting in my program? Thanks

Question

Here's the program:

int main() {
cout <<"guess the first letter of my name!/n";
char firstLetter;
cin >> firstLetter;
if (firstLetter = r || R) {
cout << "I'm not rumple stilsken, I'll give you that.";
}
else if (firstLetter = q || Q) {
cout << "Really? Q?? You guessed q??";
}
else {
cout << "WRONG. No pancakes for you...";
}
}

The only error it gives me is that my q's and r's "were not declared in this scope." What's going on here?

Answer 1

You forgot this ( ' )

Because you don't have ( ' ), so the compiler thought that r's and q's is variable. And there's no variable named r or q. Which is told by the compiler. (was not declared in the scope.)

Answer 2

Thomas Wald
Write it like this
if (firstLetter == 'r' ||
firstLetter == 'R') {
...
}
Do the same pattern with the else if statement, the == is to check equality, while = is assignment. Another error is r, R, and other characters are not inside the single quotation mark ( ' ). Even if you write it like this 'r' || 'R' , it's still wrong, since it will always give true because it checks the value of character r or R, they both have the value more than one, so it's true, firstLetter == true will always be true since every characters has value more than 0. So, you have to write the code like I did above

Answer 3

Ok. Thanks that helps a lot 👍👍👌