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Started by mkoday November 19, 2001 10:45 PM

1 comment, last by mkoday 22 years, 4 months ago

mkoday

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November 19, 2001 10:45 PM

If I am to declare a string of unknown size and the user is to input a string containing alphanumeric characters and spaces, what would be the most efficient way to declare and accept input?

barazor

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November 19, 2001 11:31 PM

i think its getline(cin,stringname)

Oluseyi

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November 19, 2001 11:47 PM

barazor is correct. You might just want to look up MS'' getline bugfix if you use MSVC. The version of the Standard C++ Library that shipped with MSVC6 has a bug in the ''string'' template implementation file that causes it to read an extra character after encountering the terminating delimiter.

(Thanks Martee!)