Console input

Hi all

I'm reading in some data from the user but have some problems when they seperate words by a space - each word is a taken as a seperate input :-(

Code:

	string name, address, account;
	cout << "Input suppliers name: ";
	cin  >> name;
	cout << "Input suppliers address: ";
	cin  >> address;
	cout << "Input suppliers account name: ";
	cin  >> account;

So if I entered "Nice one" for the suppliers address Then the address would end up as "Nice" and account name would end up as "one".

Any ideas what I need to do to get correct input??

Thanks

you could try to insert this instead:

Code:

           char name[256];
           char address[256];
           char account[256];
           cout << "Input suppliers name: ";
           cin.getline(name, 256, '\n') //the userinput is added to variable: name
           cout << "Input suppliers address: ";
           cin.getline(address, 256, '\n') //the userinput is added to variable: address
           cout << "Input suppliers account name: ";
           cin.getline(account, 256, '\n') //the userinput is added to variable: account

And to check if it worked:

Code:

           cout << name << endl << address << endl << account;

Hope it works

Thanks for the come back.

I could use an array but then I'm limiting the user to a max number of characters.

How can I catter for spaces and not run into this limitation?

Ta

Originally Posted by ozzy34

Thanks for the come back.

I could use an array but then I'm limiting the user to a max number of characters.

How can I catter for spaces and not run into this limitation?

Ta

getline is overloaded for the string class.

Code:

string name;
string address;
string account;

cout << "Input suppliers name: ";
getline(cin, name);
cout << "Input suppliers address: ";
getline(cin, address);
cout << "Input suppliers account name: ";
getline(cin, account);

mmm Somthing is not working with the getline routine.

I have

Code:

	string name, address, account;
	cout << "Input suppliers name: ";
	getline(cin,name);
	cout << "Input suppliers address: ";
	getline(cin,address);
	cout << "Input suppliers account name: ";
	getline(cin, account);
	cout << "name: " << name
		 << ", address: " << address
		 << ", account: " << account << endl;

If I run this I enter the following at the prompts:-

Input suppliers name: jas
Input suppliers address: here
Input suppliers account name: ja1

however this cout out gives me:

name: , address: jas, account: here

So things are out by one position :-( BTW - This is in a sub menu and the menu that calls this thinks there has been a user input, so something is being buffered somewhere.

Any ideas how to overcome?

Cheers

Change your prompt lines from...

cout << "Input suppliers name: ";

... to...

cout << "Input suppliers name: " << flush;

... and try again.

I have changed my code as you suggested and still get the same issue...

I came across something that mentioned that getLine also inputs a \n. Is this doing something??

Ta

sounds like there is a newline char as the first char in the input buffer when getline() is called, probably left there by a previous call to >> or get() or something. Try placing the following line before the call to getline()


cin. ignore(8000, '\n');

Adding that certainly gets my strings populated properly but I now have to hit the enter key twice when I enter the suppliers name....

Do I need to add anything else?

It is possible that hitting enter twice is a result of a bug in your standard library implementation (if you use VC++ 6.0). Otherwise, show more code so we can see what is being called before these calls to getline.