The object of this program is to determine whether the user's input is a capital or lowercase using if/else

Here's what I've come up with so far.
Any help is great help.

your first problem:

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/operators/

scroll down to logical operators.

second problem:

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson2.html

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//Taken from http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/operators/

Assignment operator (=)
The assignment operator assigns a value to a variable.
x = 5;
This statement assigns the integer value 5 to the variable x. The assignment operation always takes place from right to left, and never the other way around

//The above seems very confusing to me, I read x = 5; as x is now 5 not 5 is now x
//When the site says never the other way around what does it mean? I read left to right and it seems to give the same result (including the examples they give).
//Can someone post an example showing what they mean by you read it right to left? It looks the same to me

In mathematical equations typically you read it from left to right



You would be surprised how many newbies seem to want to do assignment operations the same way



Thus the need to differentiate.

The C++ standard does not guarantee that ASCII is used for character values. So instead of comparing to 97/122 you should use 'a' and 'z'. But! The standard doesn't guarantee that any characters besides '0'-'9' are contiguous or ordered. That's why you should use std::isupper function ( http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/byte/isupper ).

Still ends up with the same value for x though right? Do you have an example of where it would change? I don't see how it's any different than algebra.

Not sure about KrzaQ2's post .

Even with the notion of reading mathematical equations from left to right,



reads as "x is equal to 5" or "x equals 5", which means the value of x is equal to 5.

It amuses me how many people get that mixed up.

Which is what is confusing, when they say ALWAYS read from right to left, is it not the same exact thing?

perhaps two variables instead of variable + constant would help you?





tell me what you think x and y are for each code snippet.