how to loop a user difined phrase?

[InvariantLoop]

im asking the user to enter a phrase. the user enters "hi" and the loop works depending on the number the user tells it to loop. so far so good but the output is wrong. instead of outputing

hi
hi

the prog only outputs the 1st letter of the phrase so it outputs only

h
h

i guess the problem is with how the char keyword works or something. anyone any ideas on how to loop a whle sentence/phrase?

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[InvariantLoop]

nm, i figured it out. char works as an array so where b4 i had

char theChar;

i changed it to

char theChar[40];

so now it works but its limited to 40 letters, is there any way to make it so its not restricted?

[InvariantLoop]

lol ok i still need help. if the user types in "hi how are you" the prog will only output "hi" and the rest will be ommited.. how can i make it so it accepts a whole sentence?

[InvariantLoop]

this is the code

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	//int counter = 0;
	int num;
	char theChar[40];
	cout << "Enter the number you want to loop"<<endl;
	cin >> num;
	cout<< "Enter the phrase you want to loop"<<endl;
	cin >> theChar;
	
	for (int i=0; i<num; i++)
	{
	cout <<theChar<<endl;
	}
	cout<<"\nLoop executed: "<<num<<" time(s).\n";
	cout <<"Do you really think that "<<theChar<<" is true?\n";
	return 0;
}

[big146]

Take a look at this..maybe it will help ya. Type in as much as you want when it ask for name

#include<iostream>
#include<string>

	using namespace std;

	int main()
	{
		string s;
		cout << "Please enter your first name followed by a newline\n";
		cin >> s;
		cout << "Hello, " << s << '\n';
		return 0; // this return statement isn't necessary
	}

[jlou]

big146's code solves the limit of 40 characters that InvariantLoop's code has.

However, it does have the same problem in that it will only get "hi" and stop at the first space.

To fix both, you would want to use getline which gets an entire line instead of >> which only reads to the next whitespace. One problem with mixing >> and getline (which you would be doing since InvariantLoop's code gets an integer first) is that the >> leaves a newline in the input stream, so the getline will stop there if you don't ignore that newline.

Try this:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <limits>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    //int counter = 0;
    int num;
    string theString;
    cout << "Enter the number you want to loop"<<endl;
    cin >> num;
    cin.ignore(numeric_limits<int>::max(), '\n');
    cout<< "Enter the phrase you want to loop"<<endl;
    getline(cin, theString);
    
    for (int i=0; i<num; i++)
    {
        cout <<theString<<endl;
    }
    cout<<"\nLoop executed: "<<num<<" time(s).\n";
    cout <<"Do you really think that "<<theString<<" is true?\n";
    return 0;
}

Note, you can also use a form of getline that works with char[40]. That getline is a member of cin, so you would use:

cin.getline(theChar, 40);