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Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns?

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On 08/21/11 03:49 PM, Mike Copeland wrote:
>     In the following program, I must press "return" twice when I enter
> the string data.  Why is that?  TIA

The same reason you asked the question twice :)

You shouldn't.

> #include<iostream>
> #include<string>
> using namespace std;
>
> int main ()
> {
>    string mystr = "";

You don't need to initialise the string, it defaults to empty.

>    cout<<  "What's your name? ";
>    getline (cin, mystr);
>    cout<<  "Hello "<<  mystr<<  ".\n";

using endl rather then \n would be better.

>    return 0;
> }

-- 
Ian Collins

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cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? mrc2323@cox.net (Mike Copeland) - 2011-08-20 20:49 -0700
  Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-08-20 21:12 -0700
    Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-21 17:21 +1200
  Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-21 17:20 +1200
    Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Eugén Jung <contact@eugenjung.tk> - 2011-08-21 23:19 +0100
      Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-22 11:38 +1200
        Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-23 07:34 +1200
          Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2011-08-22 15:54 -0400
          Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-23 08:02 +1200
            Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-23 08:39 +1200
              Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-23 08:57 +1200
                Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Paul <pchristor@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-08-23 02:47 -0700
              Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-08-26 08:07 -0700
        Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-08-26 08:00 -0700
    Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-08-22 06:13 +0000
      Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-08-22 10:49 -0700
        Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-08-23 07:01 +0000
          Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-08-24 07:11 +0100
          Re: cin - Why Does It Require 2 Returns? James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-08-26 08:12 -0700

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