inputting strings into a character array

[doctorlove5295]

int main()
{
	char str[300]="hello world";

	cout<<str<<endl;//outputs "hello world"
	cin>>str;// input "hello motto"
	cout<<str<<endl; // only outputs "hello"
	
	
	return 0;
}

i was wondering why after the input only records the string up until the first space. ive tried various inputs, and only the first word was put into the array.

[Zephilinox]

because the rest gets sent to the buffer, use getline(cin, str) if you want it to capture whitespace

[doctorlove5295]

when i used cin.getline it worked!

however, i cant seem to have getline () work...

i have the iostream header, declared using std::getline, yet the error states that there is no instance of the overloaded function that matches to the arguments. i looked up the parameters of getline, and they matched the ones you put. so i dont understand why it wont work.

[vlad from moscow]

There is no such overloaded function for character arrays. It uses objects of type std::string. So with character array you should use cin.getline.

[doctorlove5295]

ohhh i get it now. Thank you guys so much!

[Zephilinox]

Ah I didn't know that.