"rob" writes:

> hello all. im a newbie in C++ and programing in general. what i am
> having problem with is taking user input, putting it into a string and
> then displaying that string again. i am using the dev C++ compiler.
> here is the code
>
> #include <iostream>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <string>
>
> using namespace std;
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>
> string name;
>
> cout << "Enter name: ";
> cin >> name;
> cout << endl << "Your name is " << name << endl;
>
> cin.get();
>
> return 0;
> }
>
> it will let me input what ever i want but nothing happens when i hit
> enter, the window just stays blank until i hit enter again then the
> window closes.

Sometimes one cin.get() is not enough in DevC, your program needs two of
them To avoid such problems, I use this macro

#define STOP while(1) std::cin.get();

and then call it to freeze the display. It also looks neater, there are
other occasions where you will have to use the STOP macro as well.