Limited input

Lets say I got a dummy char array

char dummy[n]

I want to

cin >> dummy

But as you can see if input has more than n characters program will crash . So I wonder is there a way to get first n characters and ignore the rest ?

You can use getline

http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/iostrea...m/getline.html

Or you can do it the easy way, and just use std::string, and stop worrying about all the low-level, fixed size char array ickyness .

http://www.msoe.edu/eecs/cese/resources/stl/string.htm

Thnx!