Re: How to use getline()?
"Geo" <Geo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:76BB76E1-6639-4E80-BD45-B6CE23843C1A@microsoft.com
I'm using VC++ 6.0. Could someone please help me mistify the following
problem:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
int main()
{
int age;
string sName;
cout << "Enter your age: ";
cin >> age;
cout << "Enter your name: ";
getline(cin, sName);
cout << "Your name is: [" << sName << "]; your age is: " << age;
}
Why is 'sTemp' alway empty ""?
"cin >> age" expression extracts all the characters from the input
stream up to, but not including, the character that cannot be part of a
number. For example, if in response to the first prompt you typed
"30<Enter>" (without quotes), characters 3 and 0 will be consumed, but
<Enter> will remain in the stream. getline then encounters <Enter> and
interprets it as end-of-line.
The fix is as follows:
cin >> age;
// Skip all characters up to and including the nearest CRLF
cin.ignore(numeric_limits<int>::max(), '\n');
getline(cin, sName);
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