see if you can help. char choice; std::cin >> choice; if (choice == ''N'' || choice == ''n''){ level = 1; status = 0; startprogram(); }else if (choice == ''L'' || choice == ''l''){ // Load Game std::ifstream tfile("savegame.txt"); if (tfile.fail()){ printf("\n\n\a No Saved Game Found\n"); getoption(); }else{ //read file tfile.close(); startprogram(); } }else if (choice == ''C'' || choice == ''c''){ if (level == 0){ printf("\n\aError!"); getoption(); }else{ startprogram(); } }else if (choice == ''S'' || choice == ''s''){ if (level == 0){ printf("\n\aError!"); getoption(); }else{ //Save Game std::ofstream tfile("savegame.txt"); if (status < 10){ tfile << level << " 0" << status; }else{ tfile << level << " " << status; } printf("\n\n Game Saved\n"); getoption(); } please tell me what is going wrong, we can''t get the file to load from the saved file.

choice isn''t a string, it''s a char

so

if (choice == ''N'' || choice == ''n'')

is perfectly valid