Reading from standard input

[kevinchkin]

Hey Guys,

Just wanted to make sure whether this is the right way to read from standard input and if someone does

./a.out < inp1

For string:

string str;
while(cin) { 
   getline(cin,str);
}

I am not sure how it should be for ints. Please let me know

Thanks

[hamsterman]

You can also use >> operator for input (cin>>x;, where x could be a char, int, float or string). The bad thing about >> is that it stops reading at ' ' character, while getline stops at '\n' only. That means that if you have written several words >> will only read the first of them.

[Bazzy]

You can also use >> operator for input

Don't use >> with cin, see http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/6046/