Thread: urgent :((

hello guys
i am having a difficulty with this simple program. I am only a beginner so it is kinda hard for me to program this simple program:

program is supposed to ask user name, print it and aks for 3 numbers and add them up before printing the result.
the this is that when asked for name, if i input my first name and my family name, it does not work and bypasses the step of asking numbers:

the code is:

#include <iostream>

int main ()

{
char type [50];
int a, b, c,d;

cout<<"Hello! What is your name?\n";
cout<<"Enter your name.\n"
cin>>type; // this is where the problem is..if there is a space between the 2 names, it does not work

cout<< "hello"<<type<<"please enter 3 numbers.";
cout<< "number 1\n";
cin>>a;
cout<< "number 2\n";
cin>>b;
cout<< "number 3\n";
cin>>c;
d=a+b+c;
cout<< "The answer is"<<d;

return 0;
}

#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h> //allows use of gets();

int main ()

{
char type [50];
int a, b, c,d;

cout<<"Hello! What is your name?\n";
cout<<"Enter your name.\n"
gets(type); //lets you input more than one word at a time

cout<< "hello"<<type<<"please enter 3 numbers.";
cout<< "number 1\n";
cin>>a;
cout<< "number 2\n";
cin>>b;
cout<< "number 3\n";
cin>>c;
d=a+b+c;
cout<< "The answer is"<<d;

return 0;
}

hope that works, i aint tested it.

You need to use a getline to be able to have the user enter a name with a space in it. I wrote up a short buncha code for you, and it is tested so it works. I threw in some extra formatting that you may have not learned yet.

Hope that helps!


Kyoto Oshiro
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Horizon Games

You don't need the indirection operator when using getline

i.e. cin.getline(string, stringlength);