cin whitespace problem

[Ultdrake]

I want grab a string with whitespace and I try many thing... I work in vc++ console mode...

string adress;

getline(cin, adress);
or
getline(cin, adress, '\n');
or
cin >> noskipws >> adress;

the first and the second work but I have to press two time the 'Enter' key to continue and the third skip the whitespace???

Have you an idea? thanks
Fred

 

[uolj]

There has to be some way for the code to know when the user is done typing the address so it can load the information into a string. The normal way when using getline is to wait for the '\n'. The normal way for >> is to wait for whitespace.

What do you want to use as the indicator that the user is done typing the address?

 

[Ultdrake]

The user press enter on his keyboard...

 

[uolj]

Sorry, didn't see that part of your post that said you didn't want the user to hit enter twice.

This is a bug in the STL implementation used by Visual C++ 6.0. Check out this site and scroll down to the part about <string>

http://www.dinkumware.com/vc_fixes.html

or look at this one

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q240015

Once you apply their fix, you can use getline like you wanted to in your first try: getline(cin, adress);

 

[Ultdrake]

Thanks a lot, u save my weekend