how to save a specific variable

[Timothy Palmer]

I would like to have a string but it will only accept input as one word i know this is a simple problem but can someone help?
i have so far in this section
#include <string>
string note="";
cin>> note;
cout << note << endl;
all of these are in seperate sections

[NerdTastic]

Have two strings, your "note" and also one called "temp"

Save all input to temp and then check that with an if statement for the word you want

if(temp=="word_you_want")
{
note=temp;
}

else
//continue

[Timothy Palmer]

i dont want to change what the program does based on their input i want it to be a note that they can see whenever they write 3 my menu choice to notes
but thanks i want my string to hold maybe a whole paragraph.

[Timothy Palmer]

can you give me a specific example
not like you do all the work but maybe be more specific

[NerdTastic]

Showing a note would be changing what it does wouldn't it?

I think the if statement still stands. If you have a whole paragraph of exact input, you can still get it the same way as above. The else was optional.

[Timothy Palmer]

ok i see what your saying

[NerdTastic]

uhm, having reread your question, I may have totally answered the wrong thing. Were you just worried about getting longer input? for that you could use cin.get

cin.ignore(80, '\n'); //clear buffer
cin.get(note, 800); //allows an 800 character input
cin.ignore(80, '\n'); //clear buffer

[S G H]

Try with:
getline(cin,note);
instead of
cin>>note;