newbie c++ question

sbilstein · 07-27-2003, 09:44 PM

I've only programmed in qBASIC before and ion that there is this command that goes

INPUT "what is your name?", $name

Then whatever the person typed and then pressed enter would be stored in the string $name.

Is there any command or group of commands to do this in c++ (im just doing console programming" and if so what headers do i have to include?"

jd121 · 07-27-2003, 09:55 PM

cout << "What is your name?";
cin >> name;

would take care of it.

You'd also need to include the iostram.h header file. (#include iostream.h)

sbilstein · 07-27-2003, 09:56 PM

so

str statement

cout >> "what is your statement"
cin >> statement

or something like that?

Strike · 07-27-2003, 09:58 PM

sbilstein, I suggest you hit up Google for "introduction to C++" or something like that. It'll be much easier for you to go through a tutorial than to keep asking questions here for how to do each thing.

DrOzz · 07-27-2003, 09:58 PM

http://www.cprogramming.com/
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/
http://www.soldierx.com/books/Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days/htm/fm.htm
http://www.uow.edu.au/~nabg/ABC/ABC.html

here are tonnes of c++ tutorial sites...you'll get a good head start with these sites

oh and an answer to your question maybe you could do something like this:

char string[256];
cout<<"Please enter a long string: ";
cin.getline(string, 256, '\n');
cout<<"Your long string was:"<<endl<<string;
return 0;

sbilstein · 07-27-2003, 10:09 PM

Ok thanks...Its just that most of the tutorials ive looked at go on about math and classes and objects...but never talk about a user defining variables. Thanks for the links.

DrOzz · 07-27-2003, 10:12 PM

no problem, happy reading