Quick Question

[The Leprechaun]

ok well i started out with making my own source code then compiling and running with Dev-C++ and when i run it, its working fine until the last line, here let me past my code

// just a test
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main ()
{
    string mystr;
    cout << "Hello, whats your name? ";
    getline (cin, mystr);
    cout << "Hello " << mystr << ".\n";
    cout << "What grade are you in" << mystr << "? ";
    getline (cin, mystr);
    cout << "Thats cool, I used to be in " << mystr << "too.\n";
    cout << "Well i'm going to go now, goodbye.";
    return 0;
}

i know its stupid, i just started and wanted to do something, but ok when i get to the part "what grade are you in << mystr << "? "; and when i enter my grade or w/e the box just closes, is there any way to fix this, would i have to put something like Press "q" to quit or something like that? Any help would be nice, thankyou

[Infarction]

try putting cin.get(); before your return statement.

[easy]

run the in a command prompt then ull be able to see all the output before it quits. or try placing system("PAUSE") before the return statement, but i think thats bad practise to do that

[~s.o.s~]

run the in a command prompt then ull be able to see all the output before it quits. or try placing system("PAUSE") before the return statement, but i think thats bad practise to do that

Correct .
Its bad practice to use system calls to achieve such a trivial function.
Better use getchar() if using C and cin.get() when using C++.

[easy]

Correct . Its bad practice to use system calls to achieve such a trivial function. Better use getchar() if using C and cin.get() when using C++.

is this because the code isnt portable to other systems?

[~s.o.s~]

Yes that and many other things to be considered like the kind of overhead introduced when you call system functions for trivial tasks.

A very good tutorial by my friend and forum member Mr. WaltP can be found here which introduces some of the things which should be avoided.
http://www.gidnetwork.com/b-61.html

[may4life]

getline() throws away the \n null character at the end of a string and therefore makes a mess when trying to fluch the buffer. Using cin.get() makes everything much more comfortable

[~s.o.s~]

getline() throws away the \n null character at the end of a string and therefore makes a mess when trying to fluch the buffer.

More surprises...

'\n' is a newline character, not null character ( '\0' )

[may4life]

Whoops! yep, i meant getline()'s terminating new line (\n) is read and thrown away. In get() this new line character is left in the input buffer