[SOLVED]Name reading

[taigi100]

Hey guys,i need a bit of help in borland C++
i have problems reading a name if i dont know how many character the name has i tryed something like this but it didnt work :
cout<<"plz insert ur name here:";
while(f==0){
cin>>a[t];
t++;
if(a[t]==NULL){
f=1;}}
cout<<"Hello ";
for(q=1;q<=t;q++)
cout<<a[q];
cout<<" be ready to start the game";
but it didnt work out i mean it was reading character till the infinit
then i saw smt with :
sting name;
cin>>name;
cout<<name;
but it seems like the declaration in borland and visual c++ is not the same at variabiles... could someone give me an ideea or the code plz?(in the last example i used sting.h)

[Michael Hall]

Use an STL string, they're resizable. You can watch this to see examples of how to use them.

http://xoax.net/comp/cpp/console/Lesson46.php

Mike

[taigi100]

hmm i saw that declaration string qName; saddly that dosent work in borland it sais : Undefinited simbol 'string'

[Michael Hall]

Unless your compiler is extremely old, it should have the string class. You need to be sure to use the include statement and namespace qualifier as we showed. If your compiler is too old, I'd recommend Microsoft's. They are the most active in the development of their compiler and IDE. You can install it and use it for free, as we demonstrated in our lesson 0 video.

Mike

[taigi100]

yea but the problem is that im 14 and at olimpics i have to use borland not dev mingw i will start using ming in the 9th grade but 1 year left till that

[taigi100]

NVM SOLVED
i used a bit of c
char name[20];
scanf("%s", &a);
for the cin part and for the cout one
while(f==0){
cout<<a[v];
v++;
if(a[v]==NULL)
f=1;
}

[Michael Hall]

Great! I didn't know truncation was an option for you. You can also use cin.getline() to as we did in lesson 44.

http://xoax.net/comp/cpp/console/Lesson44.php

That will truncate the string just like scanf() and it's a C++ function, if you're partial to that.

Mike