Input Handling

• Using getline()

• getline() is a function that allows you to read input including whitespace characters.   See str.cpp for an example on how to use getline()

Input manipulators

• The noskipws manipuilator is another way to read whitespace sharacters.  An on-line example from C++ Reference on how to use it appears here.

• Input Techniques

• Validating Input:  You can't always be sure the user of your program is going to give you the answer you're looking for.  One way to protect your program from bad user data is to validate your input and ask for it again of you get the wrong data.  See validate.cpp for an example of this.

• Parsing Input:  Parsing input means to break the input into its constituent pieces.  For example, if were were to ask the user for their full name, we might then want our program to break the full name into first name, middle initial (or middle name) and last name.  Breaking up the name into its parts is called parsing the name.  See parse.cpp as one example on how we might do this.