More then one word stored in a string

[BeastlyHex]

How do you do a strin(header <cstring>) that you can use two works. because im making a text adventure and i want to do "flick lightswitch"

[Ispil]

Strings can store multiple words. The issue here is that you are using std::cin, which only takes the text up until the first space into the variable. What you want to do is use getline to get more than one word.

[3qX21hU5]

Also since I am guessing you are using C++ (You are on a C++ forum) you should be using <string> instead of <cstring>.

If you are getting the words from the user you will need to use getline() in order to get the two words and store them in one string. Here is a example

string sentence;

// This will read everything into sentence until it hits a newline char (\n) which
// happens when you press enter.
getline(cin, sentence);

You can also change it so it stops reading after a certain character by specifying a third argument.


Now if you are just hard-coding the words "flick lightswitch" into a string all you need to do is this.

string words = "flick lightswitch";

Simple as that.

If you need any more help or need better examples please post your code so we can actually tell what you are doing.

[BeastlyHex]

#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>
using namespace std;

int main(){
	char action [6];


	cout<<"################################################################################";
	cout<<"#                                                                              #";
	cout<<"#                           Beast's Text Adventure                             #";
	cout<<"#                                                                              #";
	cout<<"################################################################################";
	cout<<"\n\n\n\n";
	cout<<"You are in a dark room, you cant see anything except some light shining from \nsome doors.\nThere is two doors. One to the north. One to the south.";
    cout<<"\n\nWhich way do you want to go ";
		 cin>>action;
	//First room north
	  if ( std::strcmp( action, "north" ) == 0 ){
		  cout<<"\nIt leads to another room. This room is lighter then the last. You can make out alightswitch to the left of you.";
		  cout<<"\n\nWhat do you want to do ";
		  cin>>action;
		//This is the line that does not work                                                             
  if ( std::strcmp( action, "flick lightswitch") == 0){
                //^^^This is the line that does not work 
}

		//First room south
	  }else if ( std::strcmp( action, "south" ) == 0 ){
		  cout<<"\nThis room looks the same as the last except there some light breaking through\nsome red velvet curtains.\n";
	  }
		system("pause");
	return 0;
}

[3qX21hU5]

I would highly suggest you learn about C++ strings which will make this much easier for you. If you are going to use C++ you might as well use the tools it provides. Most of the time in C++ you want to avoid using C-Strings for many reasons.

Look at line 22 what did we say to use instead of cin? Maybe try using it?

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