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How do fix the error: expected unqualified-id before ‘if’ in my game

+1 vote
asked Apr 21, 2021 by Hayden Dorf (130 points)

I'm trying to make a game but at the part where you choose it keeps saying there is a 

error: expected unqualified-id before ‘if’

can you Please help me (ps the game is called 80 day around the world) also here is the code  (pss the problom is with the first if)

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main () 

{

   

   

   

    cout << "Do You Want To Play 80 Days Around The World?";

cout << "\n B) Yes"; // making the question

cout << "\n C) No";

cout << "\n D) Maybe";

cout << "\n";

char a,

    b,

    c,

          d,

      

       if (cin >> b) 

         {

         cout << "Yay";

         }

         if (cin >> c) 

         {

         cout << "Aww";

         }

         else 

         {

         cout << "well...";

         }

   

  

  

  

    return 0;

}

1 Answer

0 votes
answered Apr 27, 2021 by Peter Minarik (84,720 points)

This is how you read (string) from the standard input: cin >> answer;

Then you can compare it against the expected results: if (answer == "a")

When you declared your variables, it should end with a semicolon, which you were missing. Instead you had another comma after d.

char a, b, c, d;

Last but not least, when you check for the values b, c and d, you should do it in a series of if-else otherwise multiple results will be displayed.

Here's the whole code fixed:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main () 
{
    cout << "Do You Want To Play 80 Days Around The World?";
    cout << "\n B) Yes"; // making the question
    cout << "\n C) No";
    cout << "\n D) Maybe";
    cout << "\n";
    string answer;
    cin >> answer;
    if (answer == "b") 
    {
        cout << "Yay";
    }
    else if (answer == "c") 
    {
        cout << "Aww";
    }
    else
    {
        cout << "well...";
    }

    return 0;
}
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