How to add strings to vectors?

[Alicia89]

Hi,
I have a vector I want to add book titles to, then i want to print my updated vector. This is best I have come up with but the program fails at the getline line. why? and how can I fix this?

string book;
cout << "Enter book to add: "<< endl;
getline(cin, book);
books.push_back(book);

for(int i = 0; i < books.size(); ++i)
{
cout << i+1 << ". " << books[i] << endl;
}

[weaknessforcats]

getline cannot put data into a C++ string object. Just look at the function prototype for getline(). You will need a char buffer. getline will put the data in that buffer and add a null terminator after the last byte. The buffer will now have a C string in it and you can assign that string to your C++ string object:

char buffer[80];  //79 character data + 1 for null terminator
string book;
getline(cin, buffer);
book = buffer;     //assign buffer to string object