Neon-Vibe wrote Hay, I just wondered whether anybody can help me with a format to put my constant in so that I can take more than one inputted word using "cin >>". For example, if I use the 'char' format it only takes the first inputted word and ignores the rest. Here is an example of the code I need it for:

'format' input;
cin >> input;
cout << input;

So what format should I use so that I can take more than one word?

cin only allows one datum input from a user, and that is terminated by a valid blank separator, such as space, tab, or a newline.

To achieve what you want, you have to set the data type as string. Then, rather than using cin >> input use getline (cin,input)

This will allow you to collect the entire string, upto the newline.

Imp wrote

Neon-Vibe wrote Hay, I just wondered whether anybody can help me with a format to put my constant in so that I can take more than one inputted word using "cin >>". For example, if I use the 'char' format it only takes the first inputted word and ignores the rest. Here is an example of the code I need it for:

'format' input;
cin >> input;
cout << input;

So what format should I use so that I can take more than one word?

cin only allows one datum input from a user, and that is terminated by a valid blank separator, such as space, tab, or a newline.

To achieve what you want, you have to set the data type as string. Then, rather than using cin >> input use getline (cin,input)

This will allow you to collect the entire string, upto the newline.

Thanks for this, as you can probably guess I am a learner. Thanks again.

No Problem, as you can tell I spend most of my time in here when on, so any problems, just PM me

I used the method you surgested but I have an issue. When i get to the section of the code where it is it doesnt wait for me to enter an input, instead it carries out the code automatically without pausing. Then when i get to the section where it should display the inputted value it just has a blank line in its place.

Neon-Vibe wrote I used the method you surgested but I have an issue. When i get to the section of the code where it is it doesnt wait for me to enter an input, instead it carries out the code automatically without pausing. Then when i get to the section where it should display the inputted value it just has a blank line in its place.

Add this just above the getline

ws(cin);


this will ignore whitespaces, let me know if that helps

Yeah , it works great now... thanks for all of the help