Thread: Unable to store my entire string in an array trough a pointer. (C++)

Hi!

I have recently started to learn C++ trough the tutorials on cprogramming.com and so far i find it really fun!
However, I am having some problems creating strings(stored in arrays) trough pointers.
Here is my code:

Code:

char *arry;
arry = new char[256];

cout<<"Please enter a string.\n";
cin.getline(arry,256,'\n');
cout<<"\nYour string has been saved, press enter to read it.\n";
cin.get();
cout<<*arry<<endl;
delete [] arry;
cin.get();

Now when i write a sentence, for example "Hello World" it will only print out the first character ("H").
If i just declare an array and put the string in that array it will work just fine, so I am guessing that I am doing something wrong with the pointer.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
//Mattias

Since you asked to print a character, that's what you got. (arry is a pointer-to-char, so *arry is consequently a character.) If you want to print a string, you should probably print a string.

Wow, I didn't expect to get an answer this fast!
It's really hard to know when to use "*" but I think that i get it now.
If i ask for *arry i will just get one single character since it is "char" datatype. But if i ask for arry i will get the whole array stored on that location.

Thank you very much for helping me out! :)

//Mattias