From:	plunket AT eidetic DOT com DOT anti-spam (Tom Plunket)
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Subject:	Re: Using cin.get() Outside Of main()
Date:	Thu, 27 Feb 1997 19:41:57 GMT
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On Thu, 27 Feb 1997 03:23:21 GMT, ghost AT mail DOT atcon DOT com
(Ghost) wrote:

> donjr AT erols DOT com (No One Important) wrote:

> >char FullName[256];
> >cout << "Enter Your Full Name\n:";
> >cin.get(FullName,256);

> Well, if I am not mistaken cin.get() just grabs a character from the
> buffer and eats it.  I think, by looking at your code, you mean to use
> the function cin.getline().

Nope, it will get "strings," too, of length specifed by the
second parameter, up to but not including the third
parameter (default is '\n').

Tom

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