cin problems with strings

[JetongC]

Can someone help me with this? I am trying to grab a string from the user by doing this:

string word;
...
while(cin >> word){
...
}

Here is the error I'm getting:

error C2679: binary '<<' : no operator defined which takes a right-hand operand of type 'class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >' (or there is no acceptable conversion)

Thanks

 

[Zyrenthian]

i would do something along the lines of

string word;

while(word != &quot;done&quot
{
cin>>word;
}

this will loop until the user enters &quot;done&quot;

Matt

 

[DavesTips]

I'd say you've forgotten to add

#include <string>
Hope that this helped! ;-)

 

[vkarthik]

don't forget to initialise ur string to something or u'll have trouble. it should look like this:

String word = &quot;something&quot;;

do
{
cin>> word;
...
}
while(strcmp(word,&quot;quit&quot);

(strcmp gives zero when they r equal)