newbie Q: how can you cout different strings based on what you cin?

[jopeters]

I'm trying to write a rather simple code, that allowed you to cin your name, and get something out of cout based on what you put in. Basically I want to have a response correlated to each of my friends names.

[Lindley]

If you only need to give known responses to known names, then a std::map<std::string, std::string> will do nicely. For a "simpler" (actually more code, but most beginners prefer it) approach to the same basic idea, a series of if/else statements will work too.

If you need to determine the result at runtime as a function of the input, then you'll be more specific about the requirements.