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spydoor · Apr 13th, 2005, 9:14 AM

wierd.. you thought of the answer but don't know why.

cin >> name;  // reads up to whitespace, newline , or EOF

so you were never reading in a space to begin with.

cin.getline(name, length); // reads up to newline, or EOF

Apr 13th, 2005, 9:14 AM	#10
spydoor Programmer Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 64 Rep Power: 4	wierd.. you thought of the answer but don't know why. (Toggle Plain Text) cin >> name; // reads up to whitespace, newline , or EOF cin >> name; // reads up to whitespace, newline , or EOF so you were never reading in a space to begin with. (Toggle Plain Text) cin.getline(name, length); // reads up to newline, or EOF cin.getline(name, length); // reads up to newline, or EOF Last edited by spydoor; Apr 13th, 2005 at 9:21 AM.