checking if a char is a certain character?

[LN7oGNh0]

Ive tried this but I cant get it to work! Ive sort of got it to work but I get an error for uninitialized local variable. The thing is, want the user to choose the character, so I dont want to initialize it. Heres some code:

char something;
cin >> something;
if (something == "l")
{
cout << "yay!";
}

I know char * something would solve the error, but then I need to initialize it. I cant understand what to do.

Thanks.

[Chervil]

"l" is a string.
'l' is a char

[vlad from moscow]

Either you shall write

if ( something == 'l' ) // with single quotes

or

if (something == "l"[0] )

or even

if (something == *"l" )

[LN7oGNh0]

O ya! Silly me! :P
Thanks guys!