Thread: why wont getline() work?

im working through TICPP one and i cant seem to get getline() to work;

i am actually having a new problem. ive gotten getline to work. i was just reading from the wrong stream. but now i cant seem to get the output in normal text rather then hex?

0x22fdb4 is what i get. when i want to output the whole string

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main(){
    
    string msg = "this is a string";
    ofstream space_fileA ("spaces.txt");
    space_fileA<< msg;
    space_fileA.close(); 
    ifstream space_fileB ("spaces.txt");
    space_fileB>> msg;
    getline(space_fileB, msg);
    
}

any help at all is appreciated