Thread: some more newbie help please

hi , I got a little problem , i want the user in my chat programm to be able to type his name , then be able to chat , and chat , till he drops , i tyed to do that with a loop , but its looping the username with it , does the username needs to be in an other loop for this ?cause now it goes like : <username> says : h <username> says i . instead of <username> says : hi

ok here it is :

Code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std ;
#include <stdlib.h>
#pragma hdrstop

int main ( int , char** )
{
unsigned char x = 4 ;
char pname[64] ;
unsigned char z = 0 ;
unsigned char a = 2;
char says[64] ;


cout << endl << "username: " ;

if ( pname != 0 ) {

  gets(pname);  
  

while ( a != 0 ) { 

cin >> z ; 
cout  << pname << " says : " << z  ;
}




cin.ignore();

return 0 ;

}
}

thanks.

quick please :P i'm going on holliday for a week within just a little time.

Your input loop is only getting a single character at a time, that is why your output shows up as it does. Let's say you enter "hi" and then press enter. The cin gets the first character 'h' and prints out username says : h. Then we go back to the beginning of the loop where the cin sees that there is stuff still in the input stream and it immediately gets the next character 'i' without waiting for you to type anything and prints out username says : i. When we go back to the beginning of the loop for the third time, there is nothing in the input stream and the cin will wait for some more input.

You need to get more than just a single character each time through the loop. I'd probably do something like:

Code:

#include <string>

...

string message;

while ( true ) { 
    getline(cin,message);
    if( !message.length() ) break;
    cout  << pname << " says : " << message << endl;
}

thanks again man , your the best !