strings making sure user has entered some info

hi, im learnin c++ so i dont know much about it at the moment, but i have an assignment from college and i have to accept a string from the user, which i can do, but the problem i am having is this

I must make sure some data is entered - how would i do this

and it must be text only, the program should reject any other data

please help

thanks

Well show us how you read stuff in, then perhaps we can tell you how to validate it

> and it must be text only, the program should reject any other data
Pretty much everything you can type at the keyboard would be regarded as text, can you be more specific (like alphabet chars only)

im using cgets to get information

and only alphabet characters can be used, letters that would be used in names

thanks

So I'm guessing that a for loop to examine every character in the string, and using the isalpha() function in ctype.h would be something to try