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newmanium

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Jan 18, 2002
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being stumped using project builder for my c++ programming. i need to read strings, and the most i can get from the iostream library are the commands "cin.get('variable')" and "cin.getline('variable', '# of char', 'when to stop')" but cant get the commands to work. not on the project builder nor the terminal. any sugggestions? :(
 
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PCUser

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Mar 1, 2002
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By "string", do you mean a C string (char*), or a C++ string (string)? The iostream library's cin.get() and cin.getline() functions use C strings.

What do you mean by "cant get the commands to work"? Here's a small sample code that reads in a line (with up to 1000 characters) and displays it. It compiles in Linux (using GCC 3.0.4) and Windows (using GCC 3.0.3). I don't have a mac, so I don't know 100%, but this is using the standard C++ libraries...

//begin code
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;
int main()
{
char bob[1000];

cin.getline(bob, 1000);
cout << bob;

return 0;
}
//end code

Help at all?
 
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newmanium

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Jan 18, 2002
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i declare my variable as:

char choice[25];

and the code goes like:

cout<< "please enter your selection: ";
cin.getline(choice, 25, '\n')

/*the '\n' signifies it to stop reading when the user presses <enter> */


it compiles fine under project builder and the terminal but when i run the code, the prompt doesn't wait for any input and exits the program. i know this code works under MS visual studio but cant seem to make it work here.
 
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newmanium

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Jan 18, 2002
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sweetness..

just tried redeclaring the variable, set that badboy to 1000 and it worked. thanks for your help
 
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