getline() function

I was reading a C++ tutorial and the person writing it said to get a full line of text without stopping at the first space use getline(), I use visual c++ and it doesn't work. Is it a real function?

Yes, post some code.

#include <iostream.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <iomanip.h>

using namespace std;


int main()
{
char name[40];

cout << "Enter your name: " << endl;
getline(cin,name);
cout << "Your name is: " << setw(3) << name;
return 0;
}

and anytime I try to use "namespace std" MSVC++ says std is not a type of namespace.

When using getline to read into a character array, it's an istream member function -

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;


int main()
{
char name[40];

cout << "Enter your name: " << endl;
cin.getline(name,40);
cout << "Your name is: " << setw(3) << name;
return 0;
}

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Hey, Thanks it works!!!!!