From: "Joey Barden" <barden AT bellatlantic DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Adventure game
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 15:09:45 -0400
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Christopher Nelson wrote in message
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>>Hey im a beginner but i sorta wanna jump ahead and instead of e-mailing
for
>>everything i needed one at a time im doing them all at once!: I want to
>make
>>a little text-adventure game. I know how to output the text to the screen
>and
>>get the user input( i use cin and cout, i dont know any other way )but
>first
>>how would get input with spaces? Such as: Kill Enemy or Get Bottle? How
>
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