Thread: name altering

Originally Posted by swoopy

Originally Posted by Dave_Sinkula

I try to avoid overallocating, so I was just thinking about using getline.

Code:

#include <iostream>

int main(void)
{
   char name[6];
   std::cout << "name? ";
   std::cin.getline(name, sizeof name);
   std::cout << "name = \"" << name;
   if ( !std::cin )
   {
      std::cout << "...";
      while ( std::cin.get() != EOF ); // eat extra characters
   }
   std::cout << "\"\n";
   return 0; 
}

/* my input/output
name? Dave
name = "Dave"
name? Sinkula
name = "Sinku..."
*/

And if name happens to be <= 5 characters?

????

Originally Posted by Dave_Sinkula

????

I stand corrected. Admittedly I was looking at your code, and missed what it actually outputted.