Thread: 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;
}

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.