Whats Wrong with my code?

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#include<iostream>
#include<windows.h>
using namespace std;

int main (void)
{
int password = 6;
cout << "Please Enter Password" << endl;
cin >> password;
if(password > 6){
cout << "Password Accepted!" << endl;
system("pause");
}else{
cout << "Incorrect AcessCode! Shutting Down...." << endl;
system("pause");
return(0);
}
}


When i type 6 it still says wrong password!
What am i doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

[Shigi]

You have there the condition
if(password > 6) which means you must type number 7 or greater to pass the condition because of char ">" which means "greater" (not greater or equal) ;)

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now when i try it it says password accepted for all entries!
what should i do?

[ledien]

if(password > 6)

if you type 6 if(password>6) mean false.

[Shigi]

You maybe want to say by that code
" if the length of the password is greater than 6 then the password is accepted "
Am I right?

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Im sorry i dont understand :/

What would i have to do to the code?

i changed it to = but that still doesnt work.

[Moooce]

Change it to == which is the equal to operator. If you just put =6 you assigned 6 to password.

see http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/54735/ for a recent example.

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Works!!
Thank you everyone for your assistance!

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One more question it still accepts the password if you enter a letter. Is their anyway to fix that?

[wolfgang]

If you enter a character into an integer via std::cin the outcome becomes unpredictable.
Make your password a std::string and try using that, look into c-strings, or add a cin fail check loop to see if cin had trouble with the last input.

while (!std::cin) // cin has a badbit flag set.
{
   std::cin.clear(); // reset flags
   std::cin.ignore(0x7FFFFFFF, '\n'); // clear the buffer (you should use std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max() for this. I'm cheating with a max int in hexadecimal.)
   std::cin.sync(); // sync buffer
   std::cout << "ERROR: Invalid Input. Please Retry.\n >";
   std::cin >> userInput;
}

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Interesting. I will look into it thank you!