Hey I'm new and i have a question

[CrypticA1]

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To my knowledge strings are just objects that hold more than one group of characters. However I'm confused about "getline and

// extract to string
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
main ()
{
  string name;

  cout << "Please, enter your full name: ";
  getline (cin,name); /*why not just use cin >> name */
  cout << "Hello, " << name << "!\n";

  return 0;
}  

any help would be greatly appreciated

[shadowmouse]

Can't say it much better than http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30005015/whats-the-difference-between-getline-and-stdistreamoperator

[CrypticA1]

Thanks for the help after experimenting i found the following results

// extract to string
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
main ()
{
  string name;

  cout << "Please, enter your full name: ";
  getline (cin,name);
  cout << "Hello, " << name << "!\n";

  return 0;
}  

When I enter my full name here "Brian Rivera" it shows my full name.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
main ()
{
  string name;

  cout << "Please, enter your full name: ";
  cin >> name; //would this be another way to write the code?
  cout << "Hello, " << name << "!\n";

  return 0;
}  

When i enter my full name here it shows only "Brian".