Reading input from keyboard

I have to read in an undetermined amount of 5 character strings from the keyboard, all entered in one line. Valid input for example, with each example on a new line:

Code:

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BBBBG YPZAA ABCD6
BBBBG WANAB REWWW ZZAA0 PPP14
AAAAC BBBBE CCCC5 ABCD4 QQQ3R ERFG8
AAAAB CCC14 QQQQD ZZZZ4 ZE_B12
AAAAC BBBBE CCCC5 ABCD4 QQQ3R ERFG8 PPP14 REWD2

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I need to get each 5 character string from the input and store them all into an array. I do not know how to do this.

For testing I just faked it, using "cin >>" five times. I need to expand tha to accept as few as 1 and as many as 20.

Thanks for your time and help.

look up members of cin. google is a great place to search MSDN quickly. I believe cin.getline might do what you want, however, I forgot how to only get certain characters. cin.ignore maybe.

You can use fgets()

The fgets function reads a string from the input stream argument and stores it in string. fgets reads characters from the current stream position to and including the first newline character, to the end of the stream, or until the number of characters read is equal to n – 1, whichever comes first. The result stored in string is appended with a null character. The newline character, if read, is included in the string.

fgets() is the C way to do it. getline() is the C++ way.

You could just read in 5 char variables if the input is always like that.

I just forgot that i am using c++ forum.....

You need to combine getline with operator>>. First use getline to read the line into a string. Then put that string into a stringstream and read from the stringstream into the spots in the array until the stringstream is empty.