C++, User input of letters, numbers, and spaces into a string

Question

So I have a small problem and I can't find an elegant solution to it.

I'm asking the user to input their address. How would I put that into a string? It would contain letters, numbers, and spaces. I tried the getline function but no success with that.

cout << "\nEnter customer street address" << endl;
cin >> address;

Answer 1

To do something like that you'll want to use a string and getline .

string address;
cout << "\nEnter customer street address: ";
cin.ignore(numeric_limits<streamsize>::max()); // May or may not be needed.
getline(cin, address);

string Reference
getline Reference numeric_limits Reference

Answer 2

you can use std::getline

int main()
{
    // greet the user
    std::string name;
    std::cout << "What is your name? ";
    std::getline(std::cin, name);
    std::cout << "Hello " << name << ", nice to meet you.\n";
}

Answer 3

Like said:

  string address;
  cout << "\nEnter customer street address: ";
  getline(cin, address);

With this your input can be typed until user hits enter (newline);

If you want multiple line input you'll still need some stop criteria.

Answer 4

You should use getLine like that:

string address;
cout << "\nEnter customer street address: ";
cin.getLine(address,MaxLengthOfAddress,\n);

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/getline-string-c/