Selecting only the first few characters in a string C++

Question

I want to select the first 8 characters of a string using C++. Right now I create a temporary string which is 8 characters long, and fill it with the first 8 characters of anot

Answer 1

Or you could use this:

#include 
cin.ignore(numeric_limits::max(), '\n');

If the max is 8 it'll stop there. But you would have to set

const char * word = holder.c_str();

to 8. I believe that you could do that by writing

 const int SIZE = 9;
 char * word = holder.c_str();

Let me know if this works.

If they hit space at any point it would only read up to the space.