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How do I read an entire string when i use cin. The problem is that cin stops reading at the first white space. One other thing. How come when I go to open a file using fopen I have to type the path in with the '/' instead of say C:\ i use C:/. Thanks

You should write cin in this syntax:

cin.getline(str1, 30, '\n');

Where str1 is the string name, 30 is the length of characters u wish to read, and the last parameter, will stop reading after reading in a Nextline (you can set any characters to be the terminator here).

Hope this helps :)

would you happen to know the header needer for that? Thanks

It's in <iostream>:

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

void main() {
    string sInput;

    cin.getline(sInput, 30, '\n');
}

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great, thanks!