Getting by DOS text limit

**SMB3Master** · 05-17-2003

Hello,

I am making a HTML generator, and the user needs to enter the body of thier page. The problem is that DOS doesn't let you enter more then about 3.5 lines. How can I get by this and let them enter as much text as needed?

Thanks

**Hammer** · 05-17-2003

Get the user to store their data in a file first, then read that instead.

**SMB3Master** · 05-17-2003

Two problems with that...

1) I don't know ho to read files like that.

2) I want it to be done in the program its self.

**Trauts** · 05-17-2003

read it character by character using getch and a string (#include <string>)?

**SMB3Master** · 05-17-2003

Can you give me an example please?

**Eibro** · 05-17-2003

Or you could read it line by line... something like this:

Code:

#include <string>
#include <list>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

// Get user to input body of page

list<string> userBody;
string tempLine;

cout << "Please enter the body of your page. Press enter twice to exit: ";

while (getline(cin, tempLine))
     userBody.push_back(tempLine);

// userBody now contains the body of the users HTML page.

If you're feeling really ambitious (and have the SGI STL extensions available) you could use a rope instead of a list<string>. Good luck.

**major_small** · 05-17-2003

Code:

#include<iostream.h>
int main()
{
	char letter,TERMCHAR;

	...
	
	while(cin>>letter&&letter!=TERMCHAR)
	{
		...
	}

	...
}

that will take it in one character at a time, until TERMCHAR (you define it) is reached...

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