C++ Primer Plus

Reading String Input a Line at a Time

Reading string input a word at a time is often not the most desirable choice. For instance, suppose a program asks the user to enter a city, and the user responds with New York or Sao Paulo. You would want the program to read and store the full names, not just New and Sao. To be able to enter whole phrases instead of single words as a string, you need a different approach to string input. Specifically, you need a line-oriented method instead of a word-oriented method. You are in luck, for the istream class, of which cin is an example, has some line-oriented class member functions: getline() and get(). Both read an entire input line—that is, up until a newline character. However, getline() then discards the ...