Hi everybody,

Just trying another practice program and I am getting error I need to deal with. The practice programs I am using were written for a windows based compiler (Dev C++). The program line in question is

// compare the name input irrespective of case
if (stricmp(nds.firstName, "exit") == 0)

When I try to compile in with g++ it complains that "stricmp" is not declared in this scope.

I have the header #include <string.h> in the program. There must be some minor differences in the compilers for windows and Linux. Is there an equivilent g++ statement? Also, most of these practice programs end with

system("PAUSE";
return 0;

which g++ also does not recognize.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Bob

Replace "stricmp" with "strncasecmp"

Remove all system("PAUSE"); as they are not needed

Thank you very much..That solved it. The system("PAUSE") is supposed to create

"Press any key to continue..."

But if it isn't needed, I won't include it.

Thanks again,

Bob

For Dev C++ the system Pause is required if you run the program from within the IDE, otherwise it closes the console without you being able to see the final output.

Thank you for that...I have been practicing the programing on both my laptop (windows using Dev C++) and on my desktop (Fedora 4 using g++) Get a little confused sometimes when they are a little different in their programming lines.


Thanks again

Bob