string and stream input

[Faggio]

Is it possible to use stream input(for example cin.get, cin.getline...)with a string? I see only that these are used with character arrays; for example:


int main
{
char word [20];
cin.get(word, 5);
cout<<word;
return 0;

}
if it's possible, how?

[gunnerfunner]

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/getline/

[Peter87]

Yes you can.

string str;
	
// Read one word.
// http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/operator%3E%3E/
cin >> str;
	
// Read the whole line.
// http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/getline/
getline(cin, str);