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If somebody could point me in the right direction.
instead of using cin.get() to extract characters from input such as keyboard and count them , than add them to variable such as num_of_characters , what would be an alternative in doing this but only using cin>> and it doesnt matter that spaces would be also counted..
Also its a indefinite iteration....
Please somebody assist on a begginers level
Would greatly appreciate it...
You could use getline() to read in a line, or input up until a delimiter is encountered, then use the length() member of string to determine how long a string was read.
Code:#include <string>
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std::string line;
std::getline(std::cin, line);
I prefer you use namespace std, so you don't have to use the standard scope for basic I/O.
do this after you declare your libraries:
using namespace std;
and now you don't have to do std:: anymore
as well as you increase highly probabylity of naming conflicts...Quote:
I prefer you use namespace std, so you don't have to use the standard scope for basic I/O.
vart, a quick note here:
the std stuff is so well known, so every library would avoid name conflict, besides, the other C++ libs may have their own namespace, naming conventions also.
well time() function is also well known to me...Quote:
the std stuff is so well known
still I write
double time; here and there in my code... and don't catch it till PC-Lint warns me...
The namespace discussion is off topic, but this thread might help explain why it is not so simple to just avoid naming conflicts with the std namespace: http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showthread.php?t=55269
If someone prefers to explicitly state the namespace, I don't know why you would tell them not to.