separate cin values with : colon

[cppnb]

HI,i am beginner in c++,i got stuck trying to separate values entered with :.
for eg:

cout << "Pls enter name\n";
cin >> Name;
data << Name;

cout << "Pls enter age\n";
cin >> age;
data << age;

i would need the output to be John:34
do i need getline()?

thanks!

[Bazzy]

yes, use getline like this:

string Name;
getline ( cin, Name, ':' ); // reads from the beginning of the line until the first colon 

See
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/6046/
http://www.cplusplus.com/articles/numb_to_text/
If you need to read the age into numeric variable with getline

[cppnb]

hi,thanks for the reply.however when i run the terminal,when i entered the name and press enter,it just entered to next line and how prompt for enter age..

[acorn]

please post your exact code and use the source code tag to the right in the format options. is this what your trying to do ?

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using std::cout;
using std::endl;
using std::cin;
using std::string;

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    cout << "Enter you name : ";
    string name;
    cin >> name;

    cout << "Enter your age : ";
    int age;
    cin >> age;

    cout << name << ":" << age;

    return 0;
}

[cppnb]

Well,i am trying to store cin data entered into a text file..each data entered will be separated by a :

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;
string ItemDesc,DatePurchased;
fstream data;

data.open ("data.txt");
cout << "Pls enter item description\n";
cin >> ItemDesc;
data << ItemDesc;
cout << "Pls enter Date purchased\n";
cin >> DatePurchased;
data << DatePurchased;

so my code is like in data.txt will display cheese:20jan2011