string manipulation functions?

[fg8ty64]

Hi. I've written a program for a beginner C++ class that asks the user to enter a generic five-word phrase (with a single space between). It then outputs each word of the phrase separately. The program runs fine and doesn't terminate or skip words if the user accidentally enters a double space. But my instructions say to use various string manipulation functions. How do I add those to my program? Here is the program:

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main ()
{
	string firstWord, secondWord, thirdWord, fourthWord, fifthWord;

	cout << "Enter a five-word phrase." << endl;
	cin >> firstWord >> secondWord >> thirdWord >> fourthWord >> fifthWord;

	cout << "Your first word is: " << firstWord << endl
		<< "Your second word is: " << secondWord << endl
		<< "Your third word is: " << thirdWord << endl
		<< "Your fourth word is: " << fourthWord << endl
		<< "Your fifth word is: " <<fifthWord << endl;

	return 0;
}

[Duoas]

Start with

int main()
{
	string five_word_phrase;

	cout << "Enter a five-word phrase: ";
	getline( cin, five_word_phrase );

Now take a look through the string class's methods
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/
to see what you can use to split the individual words out of the five_word_phrase string.

Hope this helps.

[edit]
Hint: you will need two indices into the string: where the next word starts and where it ends. Find those locations, then you can use another method to get only that substring.

[fg8ty64]

I've been reading the reference site you suggested and also a book that I have, and I've come up with:

int main ()
{
	string firstWord, secondWord, thirdWord, fourthWord, fifthWord;

	cout << "Enter a five-word phrase." << endl;
	getline (cin, firstWord);
	getline (cin, secondWord);
	getline (cin, thirdWord);
	getline (cin, fourthWord);
	getline (cin, fifthWord);

, but I'm going about it all wrong. I still don't know how to split the words and get them to output separately. I know it has something to do with where the cursor is and how it reads spaces, but don't know how to write it. Also, I don't know what the cout statement would be.

[Mitsakos]

The getline() function reads a line, not just a word. So by saying getline so many times you just put your program to read more lines... So you just need one getline() that will store all the words in a single string.

Hint: you will need two indices into the string: where the next word starts and where it ends

When you have a phrase, like "This is a phrase", what is the key to separate each word? It is like reading it.