strip spaces

well i have a problem here.
when i enter names with leading/trailing spaces they get stored as it is.
how to remove leading/trailing spaces from the strings entered?

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
  vector<string> name_list;

  cout << "Enter names or '$' to stop:" << endl;
  while (true)
  {
    string tmp;
// i though this would help, but not. i still get leading spaces.
    cin.setf(ios::skipws);
    getline(cin, tmp, '\n');
    if (tmp == "$") break;
    name_list.push_back(tmp);
  }

  sort(name_list.begin(), name_list.end());

  for (int i=0; i<name_list.size(); i++)
  {
    cout << name_list[i] << endl;
  }
    

  return 0;
}

Boost has trim functions, but you could write your own easily. Find first non-white-space character and erase up to it. Then find the last non-white-space character and remove everything following it.

Well, getline kindof reads the entire line the user enters and does not stop (or trim) if it encounters spaces or such.

getline() is raw. It does not understand what skipws means. It just reads bytes until end of line. Don't use getline() for this task.