Simple (noob) Question

Bourne · #1 (**permalink**) February 25th, 2007, 07:26 PM

I am new to C++ (as is evident by this simple quewstion), but if anybody could take the time to help..

I am trying to get a simple program to write user-specified contents to a file. I have the basics working, but it will cut anything off from the content after a space is entered. Here is the code I have. (I realize this is probably not the best way to go about doing this, but I'm trying to keep it simple, as I am still very new to C++ programming.

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

string content;
int main () {

    cout << "Enter your content: ";
    cin >> content;

  ofstream myfile;
  myfile.open ("example.txt");
  myfile << content; //this does not allow spaces; only the first set of chars before the space will be included
  myfile.close();
  return 0;
}

When the program is ran, anything after a space in the entered content is cut off, and is not written to the file.

Any help would be appriciated.

Geo121 · #2 (**permalink**) February 26th, 2007, 10:07 AM

considering that you are new to C++ I will give you a simple fix to take care of this otherwise you will have to go back and redo some things which you may not understand and will learn later on as you progress through the learning stages. When you use cin it stops accepting input at white spaces which are tabs spaces or enters. to accept these just use the getline function to accept the whole line and it will work perfect.

~ Geo

~ Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive!

Geo121 · #3 (**permalink**) February 26th, 2007, 10:08 AM

HERE IS YOUR CODE :

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main () {
     string content;

     cout << "Enter your content: ";
     getline(cin, content);

     ofstream myfile;
     myfile.open ("example.txt");
     myfile << content;
     myfile.close();
     return 0;
}

~ Geo

~ Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive!

Geo121 · #4 (**permalink**) February 26th, 2007, 10:09 AM

See it's the same exact thing except one line is a little different.

Good Work keep it up =P

~ Geo

~ Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive!

Bourne · #5 (**permalink**) February 26th, 2007, 11:44 AM

Ok thank you for that. Works now.
I appriciate the help.

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