When entering a string in the console. Only the first word is then printed

Question

So I create a string:

 string randomstring;

Then I enter something in the console of what it should contain

"A broken string"

And now when I type:

  cout << randomstring << endl;

The output reads

A

Why doesn't it prints the whole string ?

Answer 1

Use std::getline() when you take a string input from the user.

std::string str;
std::getline(std::cin, str);
std::cout << str << std::endl;