From: "Paganini <Nathan E. Banks>" <paganini AT madisontelco DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Strings
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 19:55:43 -0600
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I did a little more research, and I wasn't too far off...this is what works
with DJGPP, and it is correct according to the standard...

#include <string>
...
getline(<stream>, <string_var>);
...

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Paganini <Nathan E. Banks> <paganini AT madisontelco DOT com> wrote in message
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>Manni Heumann <manni AT hotbot DOT com> wrote in message
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>>In article <7brab6$cts$1 AT news3 DOT infoave DOT net>, "Paganini <Nathan E. Banks>"
><paganini AT madisontelco DOT com> wrote:
>>>Actually, cin >> string_val DOES work...but a better way is to use
>>>string_val.Getline().
>>>
>>>Check the <string> docs for other useful member functions like
>Read_token().
>>>
>>
>>Hi Nathan!
>>
>>Could you elaborate on this?
>>
>>Are you saying that string has a member Getline() ?
>>Getline with a capital G?
>>Does it take any arguments?
>>How does it know what stream to use?
>>
>>Are you shure about this?
>
>Hi! According to the standard, the <string> class has a getline (small 'g')
>that reads a line from a stream. It takes a stream as an argument I
>believe... I just tried it with DJGPP however and it didn't work (!)  Which
>leads me to ask, is there a reference for DJGPP that lists all the
functions
>in the libraries that come with it? There's a really nice one for libc...is
>there one for the other libs?
>
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>Paganini <Nathan E. Banks>
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