So I'm trying to read input like this from the standard input (using cin):
Adam English 85
Charlie Math 76
Erica History 82
Richard Science 90
My goal is to eventually store each data piece in its own cell in a data structure I have created, so basically I want to parse the input so each piece of data is individual. Since each row of input is inputted by the user one at a time, each time I get an entire row of input that I need to parse. Currently I am trying something like this:
stringstream ss;
getline(cin, ss);
string name;
string course;
string grade;
ss >> name >> course >> grade;
The error I am having is that XCode is telling me there's no matching function call to getline which is confusing me. I have included the string library, so I'm guessing the error has to do with using getline to read in from cin to a stringstream? Any help here would be appreciated.
You are almost there, the error is most probably1 caused because you are trying to call getline with second parameter stringstream, just make a slight modification and store the data within the std::cin in a string first and then used it to initialize a stringstream, from which you can extract the input:
// read input
string input;
getline(cin, input);
// initialize string stream
stringstream ss(input);
// extract input
string name;
string course;
string grade;
ss >> name >> course >> grade;
1. Assuming you have included:
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;