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Hi.

[I have read two online c++ tutorials and found at least three usenet
threads concerning this issue, but I am still unable to solve this
problem. Therefore, please forgive me for bringing up this issue
again... I have read the c++ faq-lite, too :-)...)

I am using turbo c++ 3.0 for DOS. (I know it is old but I suppose that
it should be possible to do this sort of things.)

I want to prompt the user for input and allow her to type as much as he
wants to (and afterwards store the inputed text in a string / char*).

Following the advice given to previous posters, I tried to include
string.h and create a string object of undefined length. But none of
the three constructors which are available do this: the first creates a
string of predefined length (it is passed as an argument to the
constructor), the second converts a null-terminated C-string to a
"string" object of this class and the third is a copy constructor.

Previously I had tried to create an array of characters in the free
store and use cin:

char* text = "";
cin >> text;

This allowed the user to enter 127 characters(if I am not mistaken),
but then the computer just beeped (I suppose that the keyboard was
full!). The inserted characters were stored correctly, it seems, in the
array "text". What can I do? I suppose that increasing the size of the
keyboard buffer isn't the solution, because that would imply setting a
maximum value again.

Thank you very much for your attention and please forgive the length of
this message... no array of chars could ever handle this :-) !

Bye,

Maria van Brooedk



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