function
<string>
std::operator>> (string)
istream& operator>> (istream& is, string& str);
Extract string from stream
Extracts a string from the input stream is, storing the sequence in str, which is overwritten (the previous value of str is replaced).
This function overloads operator>> to behave as described in istream::operator>> for c-strings, but applied to string objects.
Each extracted character is appended to the string as if its member push_back was called.
Notice that the istream extraction operations use whitespaces as separators; Therefore, this operation will only extract what can be considered a word from the stream. To extract entire lines of text, see the string overload of global function getline.
Parameters
- is
- istream object from which characters are extracted.
- str
- string object where the extracted content is stored.
Return Value
The same as parameter is.
A call to this function may set any of the internal state flags of is if:
| flag | error |
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| eofbit | The end of the source of characters is reached during its operations. |
| failbit | The input obtained could not be interpreted as a valid textual representation of an object of this type.
In this case, distr preserves the parameters and internal data it had before the call.
Notice that some eofbit cases will also set failbit. |
| badbit | An error other than the above happened. |
(see ios_base::iostate for more info on these)
Additionally, in any of these cases, if the appropriate flag has been set with is's member function ios::exceptions, an exception of type ios_base::failure is thrown.
Example
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// extract to string
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
main ()
{
std::string name;
std::cout << "Please, enter your name: ";
std::cin >> name;
std::cout << "Hello, " << name << "!\n";
return 0;
}
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Complexity
Unspecified, but generally linear in the resulting length of str.
Iterator validity
Any iterators, pointers and references related to str may be invalidated.
Data races
Both objects, is and str, are modified.
Exception safety
Basic guarantee: if an exception is thrown, both is and str end up in a valid state.