simple question (cout << "two words")

I'm just learning C++, so please dont tell me I'm stupid. I know I'm stupid, but anyway.

I'm writing a simple password program, using nothing but a while loop, cin and cout. It works fine, except when i try to enter two words as the password.
example(program output is in bold, i think):

Enter password:
foobar
Password accepted.

but when i run it and enter two words, it echos Enter password twice:
Enter Password:
foo bar
Enter password:
Enter Password:

any help would be appreciated. I'm using Dev-C++ on windows 98, if it matters. Thanks in advance.


bleach

When using "cin >>" it will only read up to the first space.
You want to use cin.getline

Code:

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char input[255];
cin.getline(input,254,'\n');

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That will get either 254 chars, or a full line, whatever comes first. When getting the whole line, it will drop the \n and append a null character to the end of the string, input in this case

Another way using C++ strings is:

#include <string>
string input;
cin.getline(input);

If you use the string class you CAN'T call the cin member function getline(), you must call the getline helper function from string.h

string input;
getline(cin,input);