"Would you like to play a game?"

[Mansoor8]

Good Day:
I am working on a coding project and have come to an area where the logic does respond correctly; this is normal, of course, but even when I manipulate and alter this snippet in every way I know how, I only get a different error. I appreciate if some one could take the time to view and analyze this bit and offer their opinion. If there is anything you might need to know concerning the whole, overall code to this project please ask me here.

(*also, I am easily confused by curly-brace use for functions, and now I have read while researching the topic that curly-brackets are optional in many cases: how can this be and what is the truth for their implementation in C++ code work?)

cout<< "Would you like to play a game?\n"<< endl;
cin.getline(string, 256, '\n');
	std::string::size_type idx3;//--VAR
	idx3 = name.find("sure");
	idx3 = name.find("no");
 
	std::string::size_type idx4;//--VAR???????
	idx3 = name.find("abcdeghijklmqrtuvwxyz");//---??????????
cout<< "\n"<< endl; //-- Spacer
 
 
if(idx3 !=string::npos ) //--works
	 cout<< "Oh boy, what fun!\n"<< endl;			 
 
 
				 else if(idx3 !=string::npos ) //--works
					 cout<< "Why not?\n"<< endl; 
 
else if (idx4 !=string::npos ) //--works
					 cout<< "Fine.\n"<< endl; 															

Thank-you so much...
Mansoor