Help with if then statements

[jonmackey22]

I am working on a simple program that finds the tuition amounts for students. I prompt the user to enter i for instate or o for out of state. And if the user enters i then tuition amount would equal 3000 or if the user enters o then the tuition amount would equal 4500. The problem is when I print tutionAmount my results are o. No matter what letter I enter?

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
string i;
string o;
string tuitionStatus;
int    tuitionAmount;

cout << "\n";
cout << "\t\t\tThe University of Guiness\n" << endl;


cout << "Please enter i for instate or o for out of state: ";
cin  >> tuitionStatus;
cout << endl;

if      (tuitionStatus == i)
            tuitionAmount = 3000;
			             
else if (tuitionStatus == o)
            tuitionAmount = 4500;

cout << tuitionAmount << endl;
}

[oleg9419]

initialize your string objects

string i = "i"
string o = "o"

you could also use chars instead of string objects

[Peter87]

You could do as Oleg said or you could use string literals in the if statements directly and get rid of the two variables i and o.

if (tuitionStatus == "i")

[jonmackey22]

Thank you