Reading a full line of input

Question

I\'m trying to store the input that user enters through console. so I need to include the \"enter\" and any white space.

But cin stops giving me input a

Answer 1

is there a way like readLines till CTRL+Z is pressed or something ??

Yes, precisely like this, using the free std::getline function (not the istream method of the same name!):

string line;

while (getline(cin, line)) {
    // do something with the line
}

This will read lines (including whitespace, but without ending newline) from the input until either the end of input is reached or cin signals an error.

Answer 2

#include <string>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{

    std::cout << "enter your name: ";

    std::string name;

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

    return 0;

}

Answer 3

You can use the getline function in c++

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    char msg[100];
    cin.getline(msg,100);
    return 0;
}

Answer 4

For my program, I wrote the following bit of code that reads every single character of input until ctrl+x is pressed. Here's the code:

char a;
string b;
while (a != 24)
{
cin.get(a);
b=b+a;
}
cout << b;

For Ctrl+z, enter this:

char a;
string b;
while (a != 26)
{
cin.get(a);
b=b+a;
}
cout << b;

I can't confirm that the ctr+z solution works, as I'm on a UNIX machine, and ctrl+z kills the program. It may or may not work for windows, however; You'd have to see for yourself.

Answer 5

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main() 
    string s;
    while( getline( cin, s ) ) {
       // do something with s
    }
}