user string input

how do i assign the string input of a user to a char? cin>> only gets the part before the first space; for instance, say a user inputs "This is a test." i'd like ot assign that to a char

> how do i assign the string input of a user to a char? cin>>
Well, first of all, this is the C board, so I wouldn't use cin.

> how do i assign the string input of a user to a char? cin>>
Secondly, you can't assign a string from the user to a char. You'd have to do it to a char * or an array of characters. I'm not sure if you are trying to do this in C or C++. But, I'll show you how to do it in C. If you want to know how to do it in C++, go to that board:

Code:

int main()
{
    char name[50];
    
    printf("Enter your name: ");
    fgets(name, sizeof(name), stdin);

    printf("Your name is %s", name);

    return (0);
}

I don't know about C++, but that's how you get a string from the user in C.