Hey, I''m working on a C++ DOS-app (console). Now, I''m trying to read multiple values from the input stream and terminate as soon as there''s no longer input but it just keeps asking for yet another word. I can say something like ''enter your name and end the line with a separated point'' like e.g. John Jones . but that''s just not user-friendly. Here''s my code:

while (true)
{
	scanf("%s", &namepart);
	strcat(name, naampart);
	if (scanf("") != 0) break;
}
 

It''s easy to read just one string from input, but I can''t get it working when the loop is involved. I don''t care if it uses ''cin'' or ''scanf''... Could you guys help me out? Thanks!

Why not just use:


&ltstring>
&ltiostream>

int main()
{
using namespace std;

cout << "Enter name: ";

string name;
getline(cin, name);

return 0;
}



This will retrieve the full line into name. You could also use cin.getline() but that requires a char* which is silly in my opinion (probably has to do with exception safety).

Is this what you were looking for?




Dire Wolf
www.digitalfiends.com

Edited by - Dire.Wolf on January 7, 2001 4:19:32 AM

Thanks,

I encountered a small problem with the getline function trying to read standard input while I actually hadn''t given the name in yet, but I figured it out.

Thanks for the help!

Stefan.