Using strcpy with a char to a string?

Question

I couldn't figure out how to have an input with spaces stored in a string so I store it in a char first and I want to copy it to the string.

string name[2]={"Sample name"};
char apname[50];

cout << "Input Name: ";
cin.getline(apname,sizeof(apname));
strcpy (apname,name[2]);

If there's an easier way to do this please help me.

Answer 1

This is the better way:

std::string line;
std::getline(std::cin, line);
std::cout << "You said: " << line << "\n";

With error checking, prompting, and repetition, it'd be:

for (std::string line;
     (std::cout << "Input name: ") && std::getline(std::cin, line); )
{
    std::cout << "You said: " << line << "\n";
}
std::cout << "Goodbye\n";

Answer 2

In addition to operator << which skips whitespace C++ Standard Library provides std::getline function overload for strings. Use it instead:

std::string name;
std::getline(cin, name);

Your function that calls

strcpy(apname, name[2]);

is incorrect for several reasons:

• You cannot copy characters directly into a string
• name[2] on an array of two items is referencing an item past the end of the array.