what does getline means?

[joe25]

hi.what does getline does and when and where shall we use it??
i was wondering if it have any relation with #include <windows.h>?
i'll be grateful to anyone who can help me...

[Zaita]

It's not related to windows.h

getline will read from the target IO Stream until a new-line character is found and store the result in the variable :)

[Faldrax]

See http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/basic_io.html for some more info .