Hi,

I'm having some problems figuring out why it's not reading in the whiteline space. Here's my code: http://pastebin.com/EezBY8GK

The output is suppose to be like this:

BUMP! And then Something went BUMP! How that bump made up jump!
We looked! Then we saw him step in on the mat! We looked! And
we saw him! The Cat in the Hat! And he said to us,
"Why do you sit there like that?" "I know it is wet and the sun
is not sunny. But we can have Lots of good fun that is funny!"

but upon running the program I'm left with this.
BUMP!AndthenSomethingwentBUMP!Howthatbumpmadeupjump!Welooked!Thenwesawhimstepinonthemat!Welooked!And wesawhim!TheCatintheHat!Andhesaidtous,"Whydoyousittherelikethat?""Iknowitiswetandthesunisnotsunny.Bu twecanhaveLotsofgoodfunthatisfunny!" 305

ignore the 305, it was just for me to see how much memory is being dynamically allocated.

Why are you allocating an array of 0 bytes??
Also, as you can observe above, it is indeed possible to post code on LQ. Please don't use a third-party site.

Originally when I declared int dataCounter and initilized it to 0 bytes I thought it would be good practice. I think this habit of practice came from learning C, but since then I've solved the space issue with getline. Thanks for the help though.

It is good practice, whether C or C++.

The problem was that you were allocating the array prematurely without yet have the real value for dataCounter.