Unexpected cin behavior

Question

I am writing a function int count_words(string str) that returns a count of all of the words in the string.

The issue is that regardless of the input, the result is 1. Can anyone help?

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int count_words(string str)
{
    int i,j;
    j = 1;
    int l = str.length();
    for(i = 0; i < l; i++)
    {
        string c = str.substr(i,1);
        if(c == " ")
        {
            j++;
        }
    }
    cout << "The total word in the string: " << j << endl;
    return j;
}


int main()
{
    string str;
    cout << "Please enter a string: ";
    cin >> str;
    int result = count_words(str);
    return 0;
}

Answer 1

如果字符串中包含空格，则应使用cin.getline ，因为将>>运算符与cin只能读取下一个空格

Answer 2

See std::cin input with spaces?

Consider iterating over the string:

auto cstyle= str.c_str();
for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); ++i)
{
  if (cstyle[i]==' ')//assumes words are delimited by a single space
  {
    j++;
  }
}

Answer 3

You should use: cin.getline , for example:

int main()
{
    cout << "Please enter a string: ";
    unsigned size=10;
    char*chr=new char[size];
    cin.getline(chr,size);
    string str(chr);
    //cin >> str;
    int result = count_words(str);
    return 0;
}