Capturing User Input

[joatmon]

I need to capture user input with each word stored in a separate variable. I also need to pause (like with cin) to let the user respond. I'm having trouble with getline because I can't make it pause, and cin ignores whitespace, which is my de facto delimiter.

    string response;
    string my_name;
    vector<string> names;

    cout << "Enter names";
 
    getline(cin, response); //store the entire input sequence in one variable

    istringstream instr(response);

    cout << endl;
    while (instr >> my_name)
    {
        names.push_back(my_name);
    }

This compiles, but it won't wait for the user. It just plows right through. Anyone know what I should do to make the system wait for input, but still delimit with the whitespace character?

Thanks.

[mekkatorqu]

if I understand u right, then try add cin.get() between cout and getline

[kevinkjt2000]

Perhaps you could benefit from checking the istream library page. There are various functions that do not ignore whitespace. That page can be found here: http://cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/istream/
Hope that library page can help :)

[joatmon]

This is perfect. Thanks!