Posted by jay on July 21, 1999 at 20:06:42:
In Reply to: Input strings posted by little me on July 21, 1999 at 18:46:08:
: Okay, I am really starting to get frustrated....
: I want to read a character string from the input line
: so this is the code I wrote:
: char *string;
: cin >> string;
: then to make sure it read in the string correctly
: i added
: cout << string;
: and that is when the progam crashes. I know I am
: doing something wrong, but I just can't see it
: Please help
you have to allocate space for the string, you just declared a pointer. try
char* var=new char[size];
-Jay