I'm getting confused on the strings...

[Rune Hunter]

Alrighty, I know a ton about strings from Game Maker. But I don't know how long a string[256] is. How many letters can fit in that?

[Thantos]

if it is:

char string[256];

It can hold 255 characters and a null character.

[Rune Hunter]

alright making sure there thanks!

[Rune Hunter]

Here is the code...

    {
        char answera[1];
        char answerb[1];
        char answerc[1];
        cout<<"Here is the test...\n\n\n";
        getch();
        cout<<"question 1...\n\nWhat does blah blah mean?\n\nA. Start blah blah not importent.\nB. or answer 2.\n";
        cin.getline(answera, 1, '\n');
        cout<<"your answer was:"<<endl<<answera;
        getch();
        mainmenu=1;
    }

whats wrong?

[Thantos]

The fact that you are using a value of 1 for the array size. If it is to be a string then it has to have a null terminating character which means you have no room for the actual answer.

If you just want a character then just use a char instead of trying to hack it with a string.

[Rune Hunter]

uhh yes I see. I thought about nto using a string but I wanted to learn how actauly c++ strings work. But now that I do I am oging to use no string.

Thanks a ton again!!!!!

[Thantos]

Well you weren't using c++ strings you were using c strings.

C string = a null terminated array of characters
C++ string = a class found in <string>

[Rune Hunter]

Dang it! Oh well.