Apr 28, 2016 · cin is a blocked input. Whatever comes from the keyboard is stored in a buffer. When you press enter the system passes the buffer to the application code (std::cin code). Operator >> will …

Jul 22, 2011 · cin is an object of class istream that represents the standard input stream. It corresponds to the cstdio stream stdin. The operator >> overload for streams return a reference to the same …

Apr 30, 2009 · I am currently reading in with std::cin >> for the strings I expect to be single words and getline(std::cin, string) for the strings with spaces. I am not getting the right output, though.

Apr 30, 2011 · Best answer so far. When using std::getline(std::cin, s) I would get a very messy and I would say, interrupted input when waiting for inputs in a while / for loop. This option resolved my issue!

The problem is that cin >> y is only storing the first word of the line the user types, the asker wants to know how to store the entire line in y, such that file << y writes the full line to the file.

Sep 16, 2010 · 3 There is no close equivalent to cin in C. C++ is an object oriented language and cin uses many of its features (object-orientation, templates, operator overloading) which are not …

Using cin's >> operator will drop leading whitespace and stop input at the first trailing whitespace. To grab an entire line of input, including spaces, try cin.getline().

Sep 20, 2018 · How do I use cin for an array Asked 7 years, 2 months ago Modified 1 year, 8 months ago Viewed 78k times

Aug 21, 2020 · Use ws (whitespace) in getline () like getline (cin>>ws, name); If numeric input is before the string then due to whitespace the first string input will be ignored.

May 11, 2012 · The buffer remains when you switch functions, as long as you're still using cin. If the next operation to do with cin is getline, it will read that leftover newline and seem to skip getting input.