A C function that reads an entire line from a stream. It was originally a GNU extension that was standardized in POSIX.1-2008.
Questions tagged [getline]
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Why is reading lines from stdin much slower in C++ than Python?
I wanted to compare reading lines of string input from stdin using Python and C++ and was shocked to see my C++ code run an order of magnitude slower than the equivalent Python code. Since my C++ is rusty and I'm not yet an expert Pythonista, please…
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When and why do I need to use cin.ignore() in C++?
I wrote a very basic program in C++ which asked the user to input a number and then a string. To my surprise, when running the program it never stopped to ask for the string. It just skipped over it. After doing some reading on StackOverflow, I…
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Going through a text file line by line in C
I have been working on a small exercise for my CIS class and am very confused by the methods C uses to read from a file. All that I really need to do is read through a file line by line and use the information gathered from each line to do a few…
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reading a line from ifstream into a string variable
In the following code :
#include
#include
#include
using namespace std;
int main() {
string x = "This is C++.";
ofstream of("d:/tester.txt");
of << x;
of.close();
ifstream read("d:/tester.txt");
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Using getline() in C++
I have a problem using getline method to get a message that user types, I'm using something like:
string messageVar;
cout << "Type your message: ";
getline(cin, messageVar);
However, it's not stopping to get the output value, what's wrong with…
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checking for eof in string::getline
How do I check for end-of-file using the std::getline function? If I use eof() it won't signal eof until I attempt to read beyond end-of-file.
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cin and getline skipping input
earlier i posted a question about cin skipping input, and I got results to flush, and use istringstream, but now I tried every possible solution but none of them work.
here is my code:
void createNewCustomer () {
string name, address;
cout…
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Using getline(cin, s) after cin
I need the following program to take the entire line of user input and put it into string names:
cout << "Enter the number: ";
int number;
cin >> number;
cout << "Enter names: ";
string names;
getline(cin, names);
With the cin >> number command…
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std::cin.getline( ) vs. std::cin
When should std::cin.getline() be used? What does it differ from std::cin?
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getline() does not work if used after some inputs
Possible Duplicate:
Need help with getline()
getline() is not working, if I use it after some inputs, i.e.
#include
using namespace std;
main()
{
string date,time;
char…
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c++ getline() isn't waiting for input from console when called multiple times
I'm attempting to get a few user-input parameters from the console, two strings, two ints and a double. The relevant code I'm trying to use is this:
#include
#include
using namespace std;
// ...
string inputString;
unsigned int…
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Why are there two different getline() functions (if indeed there are)?
Every time I do a quick snippet of C++ code line
std::string s;
cin >> s;
I curse myself because I forgot it stops at the whitespace rather than getting an entire line.
Then, on remembering getline, I invariably become confused as to the two…
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Can I use 2 or more delimiters in C++ function getline?
I would like to know how can I use 2 or more delimiters in the getline functon, that's my problem:
The program reads a text file... each line is goning to be like:
New Your, Paris, 100
CityA, CityB, 200
I am using getline(file, line), but I…
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getline not working properly ? What could be the reasons?
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getline not asking for input?
There is some unique thing happening in my program.
Here are some set of commands :
cout << "Enter the full name of student: "; // cin name
getline( cin , fullName );
cout << "\nAge: "; //…
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c++ Read from .csv file
I have this code which is supposed to cout in console the information from the .csv file;
while(file.good())
{
getline(file, ID, ',');
cout << "ID: " << ID << " " ;
getline(file, nome, ',') ;
cout << "User: " << nome << " " ;
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