Thread: Return key as whitespace?

In the program I am working on one of the first things I need it to do is to read whitespace and the return key all into the same string. For instance, if I were to type(the dots represent spaces because I couldnt get the spaces to show properly by themselves):
...Happy
......Valentines day,
It would read the 3 spaces before happy, the enter key as a white space, the six spaces before Valentines day. So it would then come out like this.
"...Happy.......Valentines day" yes I did forget the comma on purpose, that is another part of the assignment in which I am supposed to seperate each string with a comma but I will not bother with that here.

As far as my code goes:

Code:

#include "std_lib_facilities.h" //a header made by Dr. Stroustrup for my class

int main()  {
   string string1;
   cout << "Please enter a string: ";
   getline(cin, string1);
   cout << string1;
   keep_window_open();
}

All it does now is accepts a string and reads all the whitespace and words you can put on one line. All I want it to do is to be able to hit enter and continue reading whitespace and words.

When do you want to stop reading whitespace and words?

Anyway, if you want a statement or group of statements to be repeated, then you need to enclose those statements in a loop structure. You have three to choose from: while, do-while, and for. Which one you choose depends on how long you want to loop for (see above).

I want it to stop reading into the current and start reading into the next when a comma is typed. I know about the whole loop thing, I am just trying to get the return key as whitepspace thing to work first. Something like this
...Happy
......Valentines day,
...Have fun
......all night,
will be:
...Happy.......Valentines day
...Have fun.......all night

This is only to show what my seperator key (in this case ',') is supposed to do, its not part of my problem. I am just trying to get the first half of the above to print.

It does work how you described it. I never thought that by addressing one problem would I figure out the other. In all the stuffs I saw on getline() I never saw anything about a 3 argument function.

Thanks, now Ill figure out how to make the '\n' into a space.

when you include <string> the string class has its own getline function. which is where the 3 arguments come into play. getline's third argument is also defaulted to '\n'