std::getline

From Cppreference

Reads in unformatted data from a stream into a string. Stops once a character equal to the delimiter is found, or the stream is exhausted. The first version uses delim as the delimiter, the second version uses '\n' as the delimiter. The delimiter character is discarded from the stream and not placed in the string.

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input

[edit] Example

The following code asks the user for their name, then greets them using that name.

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
 
int main()
{
    std::string name;
    std::cout << "What is your name? ";
    std::getline(std::cin, name);
    std::cout << "Hello " << name << ", nice to meet you.";
}

Output:

What is your name? John Q. Public
Hello John Q. Public, nice to meet you.