Why comparing 2 strings doesn't give desired result?

Below is the code I've come up with and in all honesty tonight is my first attempt at coding at all. However I cannot seem to get my if statement to work properly. It just simply jumps to else even if I type Westley or westley or (space)Westley.

I want the program to be able to accept any of my team members names however I figured I get my name working and then I could add the rest of them later. Any thoughts or help would be wonderful. Also as a side note I was going to try and loop it if it went to the else back up to the begining any thoughts on that as well? Thank you

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
  char Westley[] = "Westley";
  char Alex[] = "Alex";
  char Andrea[] = "Andrea";
  char Bee[] = "Bee";
  char Gia[] = "Gia";
  char KaYeng[] = "Ka Yeng";
  char Chi[] = "Chi";
  char Corinne[] = "Corinne";
  char Joyce[] = "Joyce";
  char Parish[] = "Parish";
  char membername [80];
  cout << "Please Enter a Beta Team Members Name.\n";
  cin >> membername;
  if (membername == Westley)
  {   cout << "BETA TEAM ROSTER!!\n";
      cout << "Westley.\n";
      cout << "Alex.\n";
      cout << "Andrea.\n";
      cout << "开发者_开发技巧Bee.\n";
      cout << "Gia.\n";
      cout << "Ka Yeng.\n";
      cout << "Chi.\n";
      cout << "Corinne.\n";
      cout << "Joyce.\n";
      cout << "Parish.\n";
  }
  else
      cout << "Not a Valid Beta Team Members Name!\n" << "Please Enter a Beta Team Members Name"<< endl;
cin >> membername;
  return 0;
}

Don't use char[]; use std::string for this sort of thing as that knows how to do comparisons in a helpful way (comparisons between char arrays test if they are the same array, not if the contents is identical).

You can not use "==" operator. Try to find out more about

strcmp

if (strcmp(membername, "Westley") == 0)
   ...

this is c++ and you are using a char array not a string you need to use strcmp for string comparison

you can do this like

if(strcmp(membarname, Westley))

or if possible you can use std::string instead of char[] to store a string then you can use == operator

you can use the std::string as follows

#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main(){
    string Westley = "Westley";

    ....

    string membername;
    cout << "Please Enter a Beta Team Members Name.\n";
    cin >> membername;
    if (membername == Westley){

        ....
    }
    ....
}

Instead of character array char[]; use std::string and you will get the desired result.

if (membername == Westley)

Because, for char[] data, above comparison results in address comparison and not the content comparison.

Since it is arrays you are working with you need to use strmcp instead e.g.

if (!strcmp(membername, Westley) ...

since you are working in C++ use instead string:

#include <string>

using namespace std;

string Westley = "Westley";

... then you can do

if (membername == Westley) ...

First of all, if you are coding with C++ you should use std::string instead of char []. It has the convenience that you can compare two strings (alas with char [] you have to call functions like strcmp or the like).

For example:

#include <iostream>
#include <string> // <-- important
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
    string Westley("Westley");
    ...

    if(membername == Westley) // now works!
    {
        ...

The == operator you are using compares the addresses of the strings. To compare two C Strings use the strcmp function from <cstring> (string.h). In C++ you should use the std::string class template, which can be intuitively compared using the == operator.

if (membername == Westley)

only compare two pointers' value.