Taking User Input
Learn how we can take input from users in C++.
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In the previous chapter, we learned how the cout
statement displays output to the console, but we did not discuss how it takes input in C++. In this lesson, we’ll explore how C++ uses its operators to take input from the user.
C++ input
C++ uses the statement cin
and operator >>
to get user input and store it in a memory location in C++. The basic syntax of how cin
takes input is:
<cin> >> <variable_name> <;>
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