char line[25]="Hello!"; string line="Hello!"; i looked in MSDN and it said that you can only use cin.get like this: cin.get (line, 25); // for char* only. and i tried it with a string. and VC6 was telling it had to be a char*. is there a way to use a string (with whitespaces)?

Yu could just set the string to equal the char* after you read it.

getline(cin, stringvar);

I''d go with Beer Hunter''s suggestion.