Re: Help using getline(char_type*, streamsize)

[David Lazanja]

On Wednesday 05 October 2005 12:27, jalkadir wrote:
> I am trying to get character string from the user, to do that I use
> getline(char_type*, streamsize), but I get a segmentation fault??!!
>
> Can anyone give me a hand, what am I doing wrong?
>
> --snip
>    char* cstr;
>
>    std::cout << "House/Appartment # ";
>    std::cin.getline(cstr, CHAR_MAX); //<<==seg fault

Your pointer is not pointing to memory.  I would do it like this:

char cstr[CHAR_MAX];
std::cin.getline(cstr, CHAR_MAX);

-David

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