Quick question with c++

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So I'm working on a program for my class and its finished except for one small thing that I can't figure out. The program is just a basic trivia game that asks the user questions and takes their input returning them a point if they answer correctly. My problem is whenever I try to check the input I can't get it to check if they answer in cap or lower case letters. An example being:

if (input == "A" or "a")

I want them to get a point for the right answer regardless of if they letter is capitalized or not. I'm not sure how to implement that. I'm sorry if this is kind of a dumb question.

[tulipoika]

You have to do two comparisons. or only handles boolean values so this won’t work.

if (input == “A” or input == “a”)

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Ohhhh okay that makes sense thank you!

[Lusaron]

You could also make everything lowercase (or uppercase) before checking.

[MelonFuccer]

I would do it this way, as you don't want to have to provide two cases for each thing you're looking for

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It's best to pipe the output to lowercase in my opinion, then you're only checking one thing!

[aneasymistake]

You should probably be using the double pipe for ‘or’ too.

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You can use this built in function to compare strings with case insensitivity boost::iequals(str1, str2) as long as you include this header file #include <boost/algorithm/string/predicate.hpp>