String not getting stored in vector? - c++

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string n, m;
vector <string> dingdong;
cin >> n;
dingdong.push_back(n);
cin >> m;
dingdong.push_back(m);
for (int i = 0; i <2; i ++) {
cout << dingdong[i];
}
return 0;
}
When I run the program and I input "hay sombody there" and hit enter. The program prints "haysombody." So I figured if I increase 'i' to 3 the program will print "haysombodythere" but no, main just crashes. why is this happening and how do I make it so that the entire strings (including the spaces) get stored?

"why is this happening and how do I make it so that the entire strings (including the spaces) get stored?"
To get more than a single word from the input you should use
std::getline(cin,n);
instead of
std::cin >> n;
White spaces are used as delimiters by default, so each call of std::istream's operator>> will just store the text read up to the next white space character.
See a fully fixed version of your program here please.
Also if you really want to read into the vector word by word, you use a loop doing so
string word;
vector <string> dingdong;
while(cin >> word) {
if(word.empty) {
break;
}
dingdong.push_back(word);
}
and print out like
for (int i = 0; i < dingdong.size(); ++i) {
cout << dingdong[i];
}

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How to get string input n times? [duplicate]

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Why does std::getline() skip input after a formatted extraction?
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I have a C++ program. I want to get a number from the user (t) and force the user to enter line t times but the program's execution terminates after 1 iteration. This is the code:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string str;
int t;
cin >> t;
for (int i=0; i< t; i++) {
getline(cin, str);
cout << str;
}
return 0;
}
Can anyone explain me why this happening and how to solve it?
Thank you my friends.
The newline character is still in the buffer when you do cin >> t so the next line you read will be blank. When you mix formatted input (>>) and unformatted (std::getline) you often get in situations like this and you need to take measures when switching to unformatted input. Example remedy:
#include <iostream>
#include <limits>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main() {
string str;
int t;
cin >> t;
cin.ignore(numeric_limits<streamsize>::max(), '\n'); // skip the rest of the line
for(int i = 0; i < t; i++) {
if(getline(cin, str)) // check that the getline actually succeeded
cout << str << '\n';
else
break;
}
return 0;
}
When you enter your first character (the times to repeat), a character is left in the cin buffer - newlines are not consumed by cin >>. As a result, getline(cin, str) reads this character and takes it as the first input, which then empties the buffer out and lets you enter the others.
You can clear the buffer with std::cin.ignore(1); to remove that trailing character - this lets your code run as anticipated. Why not just use cin >> str, though? That solves the problem and avoids a call to getline.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string str;
int t;
cin >> t;
//clear one character out of buffer
cin.ignore(1);
//note that 1 is used for demonstration purposes
//in development code, INT_MAX, numeric_limits<streamsize>::max(),
//or some other large number would be best, followed
//by std::cin.clear()
for (int i=0; i< t; i++) {
cout << "input: ";
//you could use cin >> str; instead of getline(cin, str);
getline(cin, str);
cout << "got: " << str << std::endl;
}
return 0;
}
Demo

Input numbers by keyboard into array but only 1 line

Is there any way to enter numbers (seperated by spaces) on a single line into an array ? I mean, I used to write like this:
First, I entered sizeofarray. Then, I used [for] loop to enter each number into each element. In this method, I had to press enter for each time
So what I want is:
First, enter sizeofarray. Then, on a single line, enter all numbers for all elements, each of it seperated by a space
Ex: 7, enter
1 5 35 26 5 69 8, enter
So that all numbers are stored into elements dedicated.
I know my English is not good and I'm not a good coder. So please explain it easy. Thanks :D
I don't know why everyone is trying to do it in String way..
it's simple that C++ std::cin can get it so easy
int main (){
int a[1000],sizeOfA;
cin>>sizeOfA;
for (int i=0;i<sizeOfA;i++)
cin>>a[i];
If you are going to enter all numbers in a single line, then it is completely unnecessary to begin by entering the number of numbers that will follow.
You are going to need to read the entire line into a string, (char[]) and then parse that string to find substrings separated by spaces, and then you are going to need to parse each substring into a number.
Precisely how to do this, we won't tell, because stackoverflow is not about having others do your homework for you.
Read in the input as a string, then split by spaces to get the individual numbers:
int main()
{
using namespace std;
int* nums;
int size;
cout << "Enter size of array";
cin >> size;
nums = new int[size];
string input;
cout << "Enter numbers, separated by single space:\n";
getline(cin, input);
istringstream iss(input);
string s;
int i = 0;
while (getline(iss, s, ' ') && i < size) {
int num = atoi(s.c_str());
nums[i] = num;
printf("%d\n", num);
++i;
}
return 0;
}
the most optimal and safe way is use containers, iterators and streams. If 'istream_iterator ' extract from the stream value other than 'int', it will be equal to 'end', so reading from the stream being to the first non-int, or until the end
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
int main()
{
using namespace std;
size_t size = 0;
cin >> size;
cin.ignore();
string buffer;
getline(cin, buffer);
stringstream ss(buffer);
istream_iterator<int> iter(ss);
istream_iterator<int> end;
vector<int> vec;
vec.reserve(size);
for (size_t i = 0; i < size && iter != end; ++i, ++iter)
{
vec.push_back(*iter);
}
}

How can I get the number of characters from an input string?

I am trying to count the number of characters in a string that is provided by the user. I know I can use string::length() and string::size() but when a space is encountered, the count is stopped. For example, say the user inputs "Bob Builder", the count should be 10 but what my code would display would be 3. Also I am trying to do this without using a character array. Any suggestions? An explanation would also greatly help.
int main()
{
string Name;
cin>>Name;
cout << name(Name);
return 0;
}
int name(string a)
{
int numChar;
/*for (int i=0; a[i] != '\0';i++)
{
if (!isspace(a[i]))
numChar++;
}*/
numChar=a.length();
return numChar;
}
How yu know when input is over?
If you want to read until end of line then this is a possible solution:
std::string line ;
std::cin.getline(line) ;
line.length() ;
You have to use getline() instead of cin to get all line up to newline. cin reads input up to whitespace.
std::getline (std::cin,Name);
If you use using namespace std;
getline (cin,Name);
If you want to count the input string excluding spaces, the code snippet helps you.
#include <algorithm>
#include <string>
int main()
{
std::string s = "Hello there, world!";
std::cout << std::count( s.begin(), s.end(), ' ' ) << std::endl;
}

How to read in user entered comma separated integers?

I'm writing a program that prompts the user for:
Size of array
Values to be put into the array
First part is fine, I create a dynamically allocated array (required) and make it the size the user wants.
I'm stuck on the next part. The user is expected to enter in a series of ints separated by commas such as: 1,2,3,4,5
How do I take in those ints and put them into my dynamically allocated array? I read that by default cin takes in integers separated by whitespace, can I change this to commas?
Please explain in the simplest manner possible, I am a beginner to programming (sorry!)
EDIT: TY so much for all the answers. Problem is we haven't covered vectors...is there a method only using the dynamically allocated array I have?
so far my function looks like this. I made a default array in main. I plan to pass it to this function, make the new array, fill it, and update the pointer to point to the new array.
int *fill (int *&array, int *limit) {
cout << "What is the desired array size?: ";
while ( !(cin >> *limit) || *limit < 0 ) {
cout << " Invalid entry. Please enter a positive integer: ";
cin.clear();
cin.ignore (1000, 10);
}
int *newarr;
newarr = new int[*limit]
//I'm stuck here
}
All of the existing answers are excellent, but all are specific to your particular task. Ergo, I wrote a general touch of code that allows input of comma separated values in a standard way:
template<class T, char sep=','>
struct comma_sep { //type used for temporary input
T t; //where data is temporarily read to
operator const T&() const {return t;} //acts like an int in most cases
};
template<class T, char sep>
std::istream& operator>>(std::istream& in, comma_sep<T,sep>& t)
{
if (!(in >> t.t)) //if we failed to read the int
return in; //return failure state
if (in.peek()==sep) //if next character is a comma
in.ignore(); //extract it from the stream and we're done
else //if the next character is anything else
in.clear(); //clear the EOF state, read was successful
return in; //return
}
Sample usage http://coliru.stacked-crooked.com/a/a345232cd5381bd2:
typedef std::istream_iterator<comma_sep<int>> istrit; //iterators from the stream
std::vector<int> vec{istrit(in), istrit()}; //construct the vector from two iterators
Since you're a beginner, this code might be too much for you now, but I figured I'd post this for completeness.
A priori, you should want to check that the comma is there, and
declare an error if it's not. For this reason, I'd handle the
first number separately:
std::vector<int> dest;
int value;
std::cin >> value;
if ( std::cin ) {
dest.push_back( value );
char separator;
while ( std::cin >> separator >> value && separator == ',' ) {
dest.push_back( value );
}
}
if ( !std::cin.eof() ) {
std::cerr << "format error in input" << std::endl;
}
Note that you don't have to ask for the size first. The array
(std::vector) will automatically extend itself as much as
needed, provided the memory is available.
Finally: in a real life example, you'd probably want to read
line by line, in order to output a line number in case of
a format error, and to recover from such an error and continue.
This is a bit more complicated, especially if you want to be
able to accept the separator before or after the newline
character.
You can use getline() method as below:
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
int main()
{
std::string input_str;
std::vector<int> vect;
std::getline( std::cin, input_str );
std::stringstream ss(str);
int i;
while (ss >> i)
{
vect.push_back(i);
if (ss.peek() == ',')
ss.ignore();
}
}
The code is taken and processed from this answer.
Victor's answer works but does more than is necessary. You can just directly call ignore() on cin to skip the commas in the input stream.
What this code does is read in an integer for the size of the input array, reserve space in a vector of ints for that number of elements, then loop up to the number of elements specified alternately reading an integer from standard input and skipping separating commas (the call to cin.ignore()). Once it has read the requested number of elements, it prints them out and exits.
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <limits>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;
int main() {
vector<int> vals;
int i;
cin >> i;
vals.reserve(i);
for (size_t j = 0; j != vals.capacity(); ++j) {
cin >> i;
vals.push_back(i);
cin.ignore(numeric_limits<streamsize>::max(), ',');
}
copy(begin(vals), end(vals), ostream_iterator<int>(cout, ", "));
cout << endl;
}
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main() {
int x,i=0;
char y; //to store commas
int arr[50];
while(!cin.eof()){
cin>>x>>y;
arr[i]=x;
i++;
}
for(int j=0;j<i;j++)
cout<<arr[j]; //array contains only the integer part
return 0;
}
The code can be simplified a bit with new std::stoi function in C+11. It takes care of spaces in the input when converting and throws an exception only when a particular token has started with non-numeric character. This code will thus accept input
" 12de, 32, 34 45, 45 , 23xp,"
easily but reject
" de12, 32, 34 45, 45 , 23xp,"
One problem is still there as you can see that in first case it will display " 12, 32, 34, 45, 23, " at the end where it has truncated "34 45" to 34. A special case may be added to handle this as error or ignore white space in the middle of token.
wchar_t in;
std::wstring seq;
std::vector<int> input;
std::wcout << L"Enter values : ";
while (std::wcin >> std::noskipws >> in)
{
if (L'\n' == in || (L',' == in))
{
if (!seq.empty()){
try{
input.push_back(std::stoi(seq));
}catch (std::exception e){
std::wcout << L"Bad input" << std::endl;
}
seq.clear();
}
if (L'\n' == in) break;
else continue;
}
seq.push_back(in);
}
std::wcout << L"Values entered : ";
std::copy(begin(input), end(input), std::ostream_iterator<int, wchar_t>(std::wcout, L", "));
std::cout << std::endl;
#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
int a[1000];
int main(){
string s;
cin>>s;
int i=0;
istringstream d(s);
string b;
while(getline(d,b,',')){
a[i]= stoi(b);
i++;
}
for(int j=0;j<i;j++){
cout<<a[j]<<" ";
}
}
This code works nicely for C++ 11 onwards, its simple and i have used stringstreams and the getline and stoi functions
You can use scanf instead of cin and put comma beside data type symbol
#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int a[10],sum=0;
cout<<"enter five numbers";
for(int i=0;i<3;i++){
scanf("%d,",&a[i]);
sum=sum+a[i];
}
cout<<sum;
}
First, take the input as a string, then parse the string and store it in a vector, you will get your integers.
vector<int> v;
string str;
cin >> str;
stringstream ss(str);
for(int i;ss>>i;){
v.push_back(i);
if(ss.peek() == ','){
ss.ignore();
}
}
for(auto &i:v){
cout << i << " ";
}

Counting the number of words in a file

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
#include <cstring>
using namespace std;
int hmlines(ifstream &a){
int i=0;
string line;
while (getline(a,line)){
cout << line << endl;
i++;
}
return i;
}
int hmwords(ifstream &a){
int i=0;
char c;
while ((c=a.get()) && (c!=EOF)){
if(c==' '){
i++;
}
}
return i;
}
int main()
{
int l=0;
int w=0;
string filename;
ifstream matos;
start:
cout << "give me the name of the file i wish to count lines, words and chars: ";
cin >> filename;
matos.open(filename.c_str());
if (matos.fail()){
goto start;
}
l = hmlines(matos);
matos.seekg(0, ios::beg);
w = hmwords(matos);
/*c = hmchars(matos);*/
cout << "The # of lines are :" << l << ". The # of words are : " << w ;
matos.close();
}
The file that i am trying to open has the following contents.
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a teatray in the sky.
The output i get is:
give me the name of the file i wish to count lines, words and chars: ert.txt
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a teatray in the sky.
The # of lines are :4. The # of words are : 0
int hmwords(ifstream &a){
int i;
You've forgotten to initialize i. It can contain absolutely anything at that point.
Also note that operator>> on streams skips whitespace by default. Your word counting loop needs the noskipws modifier.
a >> noskipws >> c;
Another problem is that after you call hmlines, matos is at end of stream. You need to reset it if you want to read the file again. Try something like:
l = hmlines(matos);
matos.clear();
matos.seekg(0, ios::beg);
w = hmwords(matos);
(The clear() is necessary, otherwise seekg has no effect.)
Formatted input eats whitespaces. You can just count tokens directly:
int i = 0;
std::string dummy;
// Count words from the standard input, aka "cat myfile | ./myprog"
while (cin >> dummy) ++i;
// Count files from an input stream "a", aka "./myprog myfile"
while (a >> dummy) ++i;