Source of cppstr4.cpp

Structures and functions

  1: // Filename: CPPSTR4.CPP
  2: // Purpose:  Illustrates explicit delimiter with
  3: //           cin.getline and C++ string objects.

  5: #include <iostream>
  6: #include <string>
  7: using namespace std;

  9: int main()
 10: {
 11:     string s1, s2;

 13:     cout << endl;
 14:     cout << "This program allows the user to choose"
 15:          << "the delimiter character which terminates"     << endl
 16:          << "the reading of each of two strings, but "
 17:          << "not the maximum number of characters"         << endl
 18:          << "read, since in the C++ string objects "
 19:          << "used to read there is essentially no "        << endl
 20:          << "limit (at least no small limit) on the "
 21:          << "number of characters that can be read."       << endl;
 22:     cout << endl;

 24:     char delimiter;
 25:     cout << "Enter the delimiter character: ";
 26:     cin.get(delimiter);
 27:     if (delimiter != '\n')
 28:         cin.ignore(80, '\n');
 29:     cout << endl;

 31:     cout << "Enter some text: " << endl;
 32:     getline(cin, s1, delimiter);
 33:     getline(cin, s2, delimiter);

 35:     cout << endl;
 36:     cout << "Here are the two strings "
 37:          << "as read (one per line):"   << endl;
 38:     cout << s1 << "<<" << endl;
 39:     cout << s2 << "<<" << endl;

 41:     cout << endl;

 43:     return 0;
 44: }