always get ascii instead of numbers

[MRangel]

As the title says i'm trying to get my code to tell me how many characters are in my string. It comes back and shows a symbol. Its always the same symbol for example I get a diamond or a spade or a smiley depending on what I write in the string. What am I missing so it actually returns a number value vs the symbols.

cout << "\n\nEnter the phrase you want to encode including spaces ";
			cin.ignore(80, '\n');
			getline(cin,phrase);
			
			
			phraselength = phrase.length();
			
			cout << "\n\nphrase length is " << phraselength;

[LB]

What type of variable is phraselength? It should be a std::size_t.

[MRangel]

Hey LB,

Thanks for your reply. I had phraselength as a string instead of int. It works now thanks!