Large code Simple Question need help

[gamer4life687]

I have this program that is a publishing company. Im doing the programs from my book. Everything is working fine except one thing. When the user inputs a title or tape name longer than one letter it goes crazy and basically crashes. heres the line i think needs help the char title part

class Publication  //base class
{
	private:
	float price;           //price of book and tape
	char title;          //title of book or tape  -- i think this part needs help
	
	public:
	
	Publication () : price(0)  // construct price to 0,
	{}                        
	
    
    void getdata()            // get user info
    {
    cout << "Enter title "; 
    cin>>title;
    
    cout << "Enter price "; 
    cin>>price;
    }

-- If you need the whole program let me know which you probably will need. I just dont know how to post attatchments on this thing.

[Eibro]

while (cin.fail())
{
    cin.clear();
    while (cin.rdbuf()->in_avail() > 0) cin.get();
    // Notify the user of an error and get input again
}

Put that underneath all your attempts to get the input. Itt'l flush the input and allow you to continue.

[MrWizard]

You are correct that is the problem. You say

char title;

What this means is that you are allowed to store 1 byte ( a character ) of information there. You need more than one character! What you want is a series of bytes. You need an array. So change the line to something like this:

char title[ 256 ];

Now this means you can store up to 256 values in title. You also will need to read in the input from user differently now. No longer can you use cin >> title. You need to use

cin.getline( title, 256, '\0' );

If you need furhter assistance let me know.

[gamer4life687]

Mr. Wizard thanks for the help that really should have worked but when i do it my screen crashes maybe its something else in my code. Its kind of long like four headers, broke it up so its easy to read, and main cpp file . Ill check it over again. i would give you entire code but dont know how to attatch

[MrWizard]

Originally posted by gamer4life687
Mr. Wizard thanks for the help that really should have worked but when i do it my screen crashes maybe its something else in my code. Its kind of long like four headers, broke it up so its easy to read, and main cpp file . Ill check it over again. i would give you entire code but dont know how to attatch

Let me know if you pin point the problem.

[gamer4life687]

ok ill let you know. If you want a copy of the code let me know how to attatch on this thing and ill give u the .zip. However i probalby wont get on until tomorrow another 12 hours. Talk to you later.