How do I do this?

**mabufo** · 02-21-2006

Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom

It doesn't store 22 letters. Those are currently in your buffer. In this case I/O stream has done all the work up to this point. You just need to extract the first character from the string and put it into a variable.

Code:

cin >> ch;

Now the 'I' is in the ch variable and the cin buffer has " enjoy a good slice of pie. #\n" in it. If you were to cin another character, you'd get the space.... and so on and so on until you get to the pound sign.

I see, that makes a lot more sense. Thank you.

**7stud** · 02-21-2006

Here is in an int variable:

int num;

Here is an assignment to that variable:

num = 3;

What is stored in 'num'?

Here is another assignment:

num = 5;

What is stored in num? Is it 35? Or is it 5?

Here is a char variable:

char myChar;

Here is an assignment to that variable:

myChar = 'a';

What is stored in myChar?

Here is another assignment:

myChar = 'b';

What is stored in myChar? Is it "ab"? Or is it 'b'? Does a char variable work differently than an int variable?

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