Change letter to word?

[HeroesNeverQuit]

Making a basic code that just asks you to type in a letter. Then says You Typed In (Letter) !. Curious to know if there is a way to make it accept a word? This is the code.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main(void)
{
    char cha;

   cout <<"Please enter a letter" <<endl;
   cin >> cha;
   cout << "You typed in " << cha << "!" << endl;


return 0;
}

[wildblue]

A char variable only holds one character. Multiple characters can be handled with character arrays or strings.

There's introductory info on these in the tutorial on this site here:
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ntcs/

[HeroesNeverQuit]

Thanks so much for that. This is my code now:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main(void)
{
    char foo [25];

   cout <<"What is your name?" <<endl;
   cin >> foo;
   cout << "Nice to meet you " << foo << "!" <<endl;
return 0;
}

So when I type in my name it only record my first name because I hit space. Any way to do something about that or?

[TwilightSpectre]

Yes. First, use strings, it is much easier (and there is no limit that you have to set on its length - it can grow as you need). Then there is a function called getline, which does what you want. Here is an example:

#include <iostream>
#include <string> // strings

int main() {
    std::string foo; // declare a string

    std::cout << "What is your name? " << std::endl;
    std::getline(std::cin, foo); // retrieve a line of input from cin, and put it in foo
    std::cout << "Nice to meet you, " << foo << "!" << std::endl;

    return 0;
}