Thread: How to store a user input string into dynamic array?

Hi I'm having trouble figuring out how to store something the user inputs into a dynamic character array? This is all I have so far:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main()
{

string userString;

cout << "Enter a string value: ";
cin >> userString;
cout << endl << endl;
cout << "You entered: " << userString << ". *NOTE* We are not counting anything after white spaces!  Count: " << userString.length();
cout << endl << endl;

return 0;
}

First what do you mean by "a dynamic character array"? Your posted code is using a std::string which is dynamic and the code should compile and run. Are you having some problem with this code?

Jim

Sorry for not being very clear about that. I need to dynamically create a character array, this is the challenge of the assignment, but I am having trouble getting my string input to count any white spaces. When I type in a sentence the output shows only the first word. Do you know what would cause this?

Ok I finally found a solution for this problem. I'm hoping this i the best method for this:

Using cin to get user input. - C++ Forum

So basically what I have done is used getline:

getline(cin, userString);

Then I copy it's contents into a dynamic character array of length = userString.length() using a for loop.