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user input into a string

Mar 28th, 2005

i need the user to input a todolist type thing it uses strings to save the items.
what i need to know is how to have the user input a string with the getline function any help would be much appreciated

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Re: user input into a string

Mar 28th, 2005

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>

int main()
{
   std::string input;
   std::cout << "Enter a string: ";
   if ( getline(std::cin, input) )
   {
      std::cout << "You entered " << input << std::endl;
   }
   return 0;
}

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