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Its Me again. How can I branch to a function to compare strings?

I'll be broke before I understand this C++. Haha.

I want to branch to a function to compare strings, however; the parameters confuse me , and I get errors like c2664 " Function cannot convert parameter number from type 1 to type 2".

Here's the relevant code: ( I think).
{
// other code

int curse(char, char);
...

int ctr=0;
loop: ctr++;
if (ctr>10)
goto dead;

cout << "\n" << qstring;
cin.get(what,256);
char swore=curse(char w,char s);
if (0==stricmp(what,testone))
goto next;
cin.ignore(256,'\n');
goto loop;

// other code
Return 0
}

curse(char s1, char s2)
{
strcpy(s2," why you");
if (0==stricmp(s1,s2)
cout << " why you too!!/n" << "Just answer the question\n";
return 0;
}

Hope this is clear enough. Any other questions- let me know.

Thx
Rick

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Adam Leinss

It may help to post all of the code at a URL, then give us the complete error messages with line numbers. For example, like this: http://vhosts.stealth.kirenet.com/~aleinss/multithread.c
I have asked questions on here myself before and it helps lot.

Sounds like you are trying convert one incompatible variable type to another type.

In terms of your code...I have no clue what you are doing. For starters, using goto is extremely bad programming taste [the assembly people can stay away from this question ;)], even if you are playing with C/C++. And then you have stuff like this:

char swore=curse(char w,char s);

when curse returns an int, not a char (although it probably will work, since char really is just an ASCII integer value internally).

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