Thread: cin for strings?

Originally Posted by Brain Cell

cin reads a string up to (but not including) the first whitespace it encounters. Use cin.getline instead :

Code:

cin.getline(mystring, sizeof(mystring), '\n');

first argument is your string , second speicifies the max input number , third is the delimeter (its '\n' by default so you don't have to include it).

hope this helps

Bang on, baby!

Actually, not quite, although Brain Cell may have gotten that from something I posted(which was incorrect--sorry!). It's actually the >>operator that is programmed to skip leading whitespace it sees, then start reading in data, and finally stop reading data when it encounters a whitespace character(space, tab, or newline)--not cin. If you learn about file I/O, you will see that the >>operator does the same thing with other streams besides cin.

(I'll have to try and search for that post of mine, and correct it. )