how to display char arrays

[EAXiz8AR]

How do you display char arrays that are two or more words?

For example, I'm making this simple program where I have declared

char country[50];
cout << "Please enter your country of origin";
cin >> country;

cout << country;

But when I type in, for example, "United States" and store it in the array "country", the computer outputs only "United". Can you guys help me fix this?

thanks

[coder777]

The problem is cin. It takes the input until the first space, but returns on enter.

Use getline instead:

There're two versions.

This takes an array:
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/istream/getline/

This takes a string:
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/getline/

[LimeOats]

#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;

int main() {
	char country[50];
	cout << "Enter your country of origin: ";
	cin.getline(country, 50);
	cout << country << endl;
}

Or

#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;

int main() {
	string country;
	cout << "Enter your country of origin: ";
	getline(cin, country);
	cout << country << endl;
}

Second one would be recommended because strings are generally easier to deal with than character arrays.