Expert: vijayan - 12/7/2008

Question
Hey.

I've attempted your code. But there's still an error.

I want to try all the possibilites like MALE, maLE, feMAle. Yours only works for f, female, m and male. But if I type MALE and FEMALE it won't work. It will also not loop and ask me to enter the gender again.

Instead it shows the ""gender is incorrect\nplease renter the gender: " and executes. What I want it to do is loop and ask again for the gender if the gender entered is wrong.

Thanks.

Answer
ok. since you want to accept complete strings (and not just a single character), modify your loop to do something like:

std::string gender ;
std::cout << "please enter the gender: " ;
std::cin >> gender ;

// convert the string to all lower case
std::transform( gender.begin(), gender.end(), gender.begin(), ::tolower ) ;

if( ( gender != "male" ) && ( gender != "female" ) )
{
   std::cout << "gender is incorrect\n" ;
   // and repeat the loop
}