Could be dangerous if the input was not 6 chars, but that's easy enough to check for. -Kevin On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 18:51:50 +0100, you wrote: > >Wbat about: > > > string input; > > cin >> input; > if(input[0] =3D=3D input[5} && input[1] =3D=3D input[4] && input[2] = =3D=3D input[3]) { > cout << "Palindrome!" << endl; > } else { > cout << "not! try another one" << endl; > } > > >///Olle > >