C++ String Input as if/else statement condition

Question

I saw a similar question to mine: C++ string variables with if statements

The only difference between his situation and mine is that I would like the condition to be if a string with a space is matching a certain string.

Here is my code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
int main()
{
    using namespace std;
    string input1;
    cout << "Welcome to AgentOS V230.20043." << endl;
    cout << "To log in, please type \"log in\"" << endl;
    cin >> input1;
    if (input1 == "log in")
    {
        cout << "Please enter your Agent ID." << endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

For some reason, the if statement is not picking up the string. However, if the conditions is:

if (input1 == "login"

It works. I cannot find a way to use a string with a space in it with a condition. I am wondering if maybe the if statement is okay but that the cin is deleting the space.

Thank you!

possible duplicate of [C++ cin input with spaces?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5838711/c-cin-input-with-spaces) — rbaleksandar, Jun 13 '15 at 16:46
@Jigsaw Function cin.getline( input1, N ) does not deal with objects of type std::string. You can use it with character arrays but you will be unable to compare a character array with a string literal using operator ==. So you marked a wrong answer. — Vlad from Moscow, Jun 13 '15 at 17:47

Vlad from Moscow · Answer 1 · 2015-06-13T16:49:34.483

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You should use standard function std::getline instead of the operator >>

For example

if ( std::getline( std::cin, input1 ) && input1 == "log in" )
{
    std::cout << "Please enter your Agent ID." << std::endl;
}

edited Jun 13 '15 at 16:49

answered Jun 13 '15 at 16:40

Vlad from Moscow

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 13 '15 at 16:44

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cin >> ignores whitespace, use getline:

getline(cin, input1);

answered Jun 13 '15 at 16:44

Andreas DM

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '15 at 16:41

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You need to read the entire line with spaces with std::getline, it will stop when finds a newline \n or N-1 characters. So, just do the reading like this:

cin.getline( input1, N );

Where N is the max number of character that will read.

answered Jun 13 '15 at 16:41

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