Comparing 2 strings from a I/O file.

[Epoch]

OK...i want to be able to compare 2 strings from a .txt file. My program is like a account creation page. The user inputs his name and password in, it then saves to a .txt file, and then to 'sign' in i want to compare the two strings and print a success msg or failed msg.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

	
	

int main() 
{
ifstream inFile;  //input file
ofstream outFile; //output file
string name;
string password;
char userSelect;
int Exit = 0;
const int SENTINEL = Exit;


	
cout <<"*******Final Project*******\n\n\n"<< endl;
	
		


cout << "\n Please select from the three options.\n"
<< "B to Begin\n"
<< "C to Create\n"
<< "E to Exit"
<< endl;
 
cin >> userSelect;
	
switch (userSelect)
{
case 'C': case 'c':
inFile.open("pw.txt");
outFile.open("pw.txt"); 

outFile << "name: ";
outFile << name;
cout << "Choose a Name you would like to use that is \n" 
     << "no longer than 10 characters and is one word,"
	 << " \nor type E to exit.\n";
cin >> name;
outFile << name;

outFile << " pw: ";
outFile << password; 
cout << "\nChoose your password. No more than 10 characters\n";
cin >> password;
outFile << password;
cout << " " <<endl;

inFile.close();
outFile.close();
break;
	
case 'B': case 'b':
inFile.open("pw.txt");
outFile.open("pw.txt"); 

string str1 ("name: ");
string str2 ("pw: ");

cout << "Type in your user name.\n";
cin >> name;

cout << "\nType in your password.\n";
cin >> password;


case 'E': case 'e':
cin >> Exit;
default:
cout << " That is an invalid option." <<endl;
break;
}
	

return 0;
}

[Jeff HS]

Well Good Luck.
Your question is....?

your code has improved but you are still missing a couple of break;
oh and initialize string str1 and str2 outside of the switch loop, some good compilers will tell you that its a logical error.

Jeff