Question

How do I read in 1000 characters from the console using C++?

UPDATE from comment on answer: “What i want is that the user can input a paragraph ( say 500 or 300 characters)” – i.e. not always 1000 characters

With the following code, I am only able to input up to a limit( around two lines). What am I doing wrong?

#include<iostream.h>
#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
void main()
{
    char cptr[1000];
    cout<<"Enter :" ;
    gets(cptr);
    getch();
}

Answer 1

Hope this helps:

#include<iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    const int size = 1000;
    char str[size];

    cout << "Enter: " ;

    cin.read(str, size);

    cout << str << endl;
}