He was asking to do something impossible, i have to find it , its in the first couple of pages in the problems or exercises of that book, using only cin>>(variable) to extract something which only cin.get() was capable of from input stream, its was a joke of a question.
There is nothing cin >> cannot read that cin.get can.
Originally Posted by Adak
Hmm . . . I wouldn't make such a broad statement. What about if you used this version of istream::get()?
Code:istream& get (char* s, streamsize n, char delim );
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this was for the introductory part of c++ , were cin and cout was just introduced, anyways like i said i emailed him and he said it was definitely a mistake
Anyways i appreciate that answer, it definitely closed that page and let me move on , instead of sheer confusion, thx again
