----------------------------------- halo3d Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:45 pm Another string problem ----------------------------------- well i got another problem.. in this thing when user enters a long string like this is a string it comes out in the file like this is a string any way .. can u guys tell me how i can make it so that it stores the input into string variable only when user presses enter and not space... im uploading the whole project this time.. ----------------------------------- wtd Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:00 pm ----------------------------------- When you use the extraction operator to obtain a string from an input stream, it stops at the first whitespace. To read an entire line, you must use the std::getline function. ----------------------------------- bugzpodder Sun Nov 12, 2006 10:25 am ----------------------------------- don't forget to becareful when mixing cin with getline. see post named random string line ----------------------------------- wtd Sun Nov 12, 2006 10:56 am ----------------------------------- Could you explain what you mean about mixing cin and getline? I don't think I'm seeing the issue you are. ----------------------------------- halo3d Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:22 pm ----------------------------------- so how exactly do i use std::getline in my program here? i mean whats the syntax and stuff... any example? ----------------------------------- ericfourfour Sun Nov 12, 2006 1:38 pm ----------------------------------- I would try input = std::getline ();It wouldn't kill you to use Google every now and then. ----------------------------------- wtd Sun Nov 12, 2006 1:52 pm ----------------------------------- http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/latest-doxygen/namespacestd.html#a645 ----------------------------------- halo3d Sun Nov 12, 2006 2:02 pm ----------------------------------- I would try input = std::getline ();It wouldn't kill you to use Google every now and then. Why thanx ericfourfour i would use google from now rather than this site... thanx for the "little" help.. bye ----------------------------------- bugzpodder Mon Nov 13, 2006 10:09 pm ----------------------------------- Could you explain what you mean about mixing cin and getline? I don't think I'm seeing the issue you are. cin>>x misses the newline char. getline chews everything including the newline char. Hence a getline after a cin will usually result in an empty string being fetched, most likely not the intended behaviour. I don't see how one could get around this without managing newlines explicitly and very carefully. Input 56 this is a new line cin >> num; getline(cin, str); cout