How do you get user input including white space? say, using scanf?
Oh and I can't get scanf_s to work.. it never reads properly.. weird.
And is there a way to only read a certain number of characters based on a variable?
like scanf("%%us",sizeof(string),string); but of course that looks for the input
"%us"
You should read the manual on scanf. Things like scansets, and the * modifier.... Edit: And maybe we should be in the C forum. And of course, you could read the manual on fgets just as well.
oh I'm using it in C++.. whoops.
yeah I sort of figured it out.. the MSDN entries on scanf hurt my head T_T.
I think I got it though.. using stuff like either
Code:scanf("%s %s %s",...); or scanf("%[ ]");
i think getline method of istream class(e.g. cin is instantiation of this class) would be useful for such issue.
example from cplusplus.com
Code:// istream getline #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main () { char name[256], title[256]; cout << "Enter your name: "; cin.getline (name,256); cout << "Enter your favourite movie: "; cin.getline (title,256); cout << name << "'s favourite movie is " << title; return 0; }
yeah it is.. but actually I'm trying to get a specific number of statements, so scanf works better.
in general though, yeah getline would be better.
thanks
Why not use istream and have a comma ',' delimit each statement then do a simple string parse to get the input?
Code:// istream getline #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main () { std::string name, title; cout << "Enter your name: "; std::getline(name/*, ","*/); cout << "Enter your favourite movie: "; std::cin(title/*, ","*/); cout << name << "'s favourite movie is " << title; return 0; }
Originally Posted by Adak
the space thing is working fine, but thanks for the suggestion
