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How can you use cin.getline() with std::string data type?

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Started by dxFoo November 27, 2005 04:17 PM

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dxFoo

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November 27, 2005 04:17 PM

Hi. As I was reading, I came across this question: how can you use cin.getline() with a std::string data type?


cin >> str;  // this just stores whats before the proceding white space. 

/* 
error: No user-defined-conversion operator available 
that can perform this conversion, or the operator 
cannot be called  
*/

cin.getline(str, sizeof(std::string), '\n');

Thanks, dxfoo

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11,840

November 27, 2005 04:18 PM

You use the free function version:

std::getline(std::cin, my_string);

dxFoo

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November 27, 2005 04:19 PM

Great, thanks.

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