How to input a string in VC

Question

I want to input a string with VC, but it seems the getline function didn't work, when I run my program, the "cin" part was skipped. Here is my code

printf("Exercise 1\n");
    printf("Please enter the sentence you want\n");
    char str[256];
    std::cin.getline(str, 256);
    std::cout << str;

Here are my headers

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <bitset>

I'm using VS2015 community, is there anything wrong with my compiler?

`char str[256];` -> `std::string str;` , `std::cin.getline(str, 256);` -> `std::getline(std::cin, str);` and skies are blue again. — πάντα ῥεῖ, Nov 29 '16 at 00:09
Get a different book. You should be using `std::string` for *string* and text. — Thomas Matthews, Nov 29 '16 at 00:22

Imesha Sudasingha · Answer 1 · 2016-11-29T00:31:09.160

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Why don't you just do?

char str[256];
std::cin >> str;

or

string mystring;
std::getline (std::cin,mystring);

edited Nov 29 '16 at 00:31

answered Nov 29 '16 at 00:11

Imesha Sudasingha

Well, I did that before. But I need to count the word and characters in my string, and the blank space between two words need to be skipped. That's why I used getline function. So how can I do that? – D.Kenny Nov 29 '16 at 00:21
BTW, `std::cin >> mystring` will only read a word. To get the enter text line, `std::getline` must be used. – Thomas Matthews Nov 29 '16 at 00:23
I see. Edited. Thanks for the comment @ThomasMatthews – Imesha Sudasingha Nov 29 '16 at 00:31
@D.Kenny : For that, see the most voted(1800+) answer of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/236129/split-a-string-in-c and split strings later. – Imesha Sudasingha Nov 29 '16 at 00:39

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