C++ String With Spaces

[cjbrx3115]

Hello everyone! I am kind of new to C++ and am curently making a program that needs the user to type a line of text (with spaces) and have the program store that in a "string" variable. I tried using the "cin" method, but my program crashes when I do. I also tried using the getline feature too but for some reason the program always skips over it. Heres my code...

(the real code is too long, so I made a smaller version of the scenario)

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

void main()

{

string sentence;
char s;

cout << "Type 'S' to type a sentence: ";
cin >> s;


if (s == 's')
{
cout << "Type a sentence: ";
getline(cin, sentence);

cout << "You typed: " << sentence;
cout << endl;
}

system("pause");

}



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The code seems to work without the "if" statement. I have no clue what I'm doing wrong so please help!

Thanks in advance,

-Cody-

[horace1]

consider

cout << "Type 'S' to type a sentence: ";
cin >> s;
 

you hit a key followed by the newline key, the character is returned into variable s and the newline is left in the input stream.

when you execute

cout << "Type a sentence: ";
getline(cin, sentence);
 

the getline() reads the newline that is in the input stream and returns immediatly with an empty string

you need to extract and discard the newline character, e.g.

cout << "Type 'S' to type a sentence: ";
cin >> s;
cin.get(); // read newline
 

[cjbrx3115]

Thank you! The code worked!