Fix spacing in copycat program

Question

Here is my code for a basic copycat program that just copys whatever the user types:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;
#include <string>

int main()
{
    cout << "type something.. I dare you..." << endl;
    for (;;)
    {
        string usrin;
        cout << "You: ";
        cin >> usrin;
        cout << "Me: " << usrin;
    }
    return 0;
}

But when the user inputs more than one word i get this:

Me: more

You: than

You: Me: one

You: Me: word

You:

any and all help is appreciated! thank you!

Answer 1

You need to use cin.getline(usrin) instead of cin >> usrin.

cin >> usrin stops reading when it finds whitespace characters in the stream but leaves the rest of the stream for the next time cin is used.

cin.getline will read until the end of the line. However, you will need to change usrin to an array of char.

char usrln[MAX_LINE_LENGTH];

where MAX_LINE_LENGTH is a constant that is bigger than the length of the longest line you expect to see.