Create a pointer to a full text line

[DecoratorFawn82]

It's really simple to say to a pointer to point to a sigle character or a single number.

int *ptr;
int a = 5;
cout << *ptr << endl;

But I want for example a pointer to change a whole text line. My idea is that the user enters which language he speaks.

cout << "English" << endl;
cout << "Swedish" << endl;

But I don't know how to this. I could have done this without pointers with if statments but I want to do it with pointers because it were a exercise to do. Please some hints?

[rcgldr]

A pointer to a character can be a pointer to the first character in a whole text line, for example (using cin.get to get a line):

// ...

    char * pchr = new char[80];
    cout << "enter a text line" << endl;
    cin.get(pchr, 80);

//  after pchr is no longer needed:

    delete [] pchr;

[Elysia]

How about a pointer to std::string instead?

[DecoratorFawn82]

That worked really great to have a string pointer ! That must have been the easiest way of doing this. Thanks!.

#include <iostream>


using namespace std;


int main()
{
    string *ptr;
    string  a = "TEXT1";
    string b = "TEXT2";


    ptr = &a;
    cout << *ptr << endl;
    ptr = &b;
    cout << *ptr << endl;




    return 0;
}