Picking up C++ and having a go at it on OS X 10.9 using XCode 5.0.2 and using Alex Allain as reference.
The following code compiles just fine and outputs correctly
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
std::string user_first_name = "test";
std::cout << user_first_name << "\n";
return 0;
}
When I add a getline function, code appears to compile but with no output.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
std::string user_first_name = "test";
std::getline( std::cin, user_first_name, '\n' );
std::cout << user_first_name << "\n";
return 0;
}
In fact debug navigator has memory filling up with bars (although actual memory use is fixed at 276 KB). Why am I getting stumped on such a simple thing/concept?
I did a bit of digging around and its quite likely this is related to a text encoding issue. I'm using defaults which is Unicode (UTF-8). Encoding is not something I'm familiar with, never something I had to deal with when learning on Windows. How do I get past this?
