A bit of help with basic I/o

[problim77]

I'm trying to figure out how to take in each character (from a string) and use it in a switch. It's like a decoding program so it'll take in the string. Ex. abc and output "Aragorn Bilbo Celeborn". I think I'm supposed to use get.line but I'm not sure.

The code I have here now only does one character at a time.

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    char letter;
    cout << "Enter a letter" << endl;
    cin >> letter;

	switch (letter)
	{
                case 'a': cout << "Aragorn "; break;
		case 'b': cout << "Bilbo "; break;
		case 'c': cout << "Celeborn "; break;
		case 'd': cout << "Durin "; break;
		case 'e': cout << "Eagle "; break;
		case 'f': cout << "Frodo "; break;
		case 'g': cout << "Gwaihir "; break;
		case 'h': cout << "Hobbit "; break;
		case 'i': cout << "Isildur "; break;
		case 'j': cout << "Justice "; break;
		case 'k': cout << "Kondor "; break;
		case 'l': cout << "Legolas "; break;
		case 'm': cout << "Mithrandir "; break;
		case 'n': cout << "Noldor "; break;
		case 'o': cout << "Orc "; break;
		case 'p': cout << "Pippin "; break;
		case 'q': cout << "Quickbeam "; break;
		case 'r': cout << "Rohan "; break;
		case 's': cout << "Saruman "; break;
		case 't': cout << "Thorin "; break;
		case 'u': cout << "Ungoliant "; break;
		case 'v': cout << "Valar "; break;
		case 'w': cout << "Warg "; break;
		case 'x': cout << "X-Garoth "; break;
		case 'y': cout << "Yrch "; break;
		case 'z': cout << "Zirak "; break;
                default: cout << "That is not a letter." << endl; break;
	}
	return 0;
}

[giblit]

you're exactly correct.
try this code

string letters;
cout << "enter a word: " << endl;
getline(cin, letters);

for(int i = 0; i<letters.size(); i++)
switch(letters[i]){
case 'a': cout << "Aragorn "; break;
case 'b': cout << "Bilbo "; break;
//ect
}

[problim77]

Awesome! This works perfectly. Thanks!