Array of Struct or Class

What is the proper way to implement an array of a struct or class.
I have made a struct or class called students.

Then I declared

students gradclass[25]

I am inputting info about students. For some reason it will not let me use single line cin to input into two variables

for ex cin>>x>>y;

I intially had it wrong. I initially only had one struct or clas with each internal member being an array. But if I do it like that, it will be hard to sort because I'd have to put lines in the change every member of the stuct or class

for example it would have been

gradclass.firstname[i], gradclass.lastname[i], gradclass.gpa[i]. I would have had to go in a change all those.

If i use an array of struct or class, all I have to change is
gradclass[i] when I sort.

When I had it wrong, I was able to input the data the way I wanted to.

I did cin>>gradclass.first[i]>>gradclass.last[i];
The first and last names went into thier seperate variables without problem and I was able to pass them through various functions

Now I'm trying
cin>>gradclass[i].first>>gradclass[i].last;

It iniitially seems to work correctly because I put a cout of each right after the input, but it seems that once the loop is over, I seem to loose the first name.


for(int i=0;i<=2;i++)
cout<<gradclass[i].first;
Since there is only 1 last or first name for each person, I didn't see a reason to make first and last an array of a sting. Am I doing something else wrong? I seem to lose the first name once it goes to the next line of input or output.

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Hi,

I can't duplicate your problem. This works fine:

Yeah it works for me now. It must have been sticking a space in there somewhere. Maybe it saw the space as part of the input and cin does stop once it sees space, but it works now.

"I am inputting info about students. For some reason it will not let me use single line cin to input into two variables

for ex cin>>x>>y;"


cin skips whitespace, so that couldn't have been your problem, but cin cannot tell that something like:

TomSmith

is two pieces of input. You have to separate your data like this:

Tom Smith

I know that. That was the whole point. cin>>first>>last

They enter thier name like Willie Pep and it stores Willie into first and Pep into last.

What I had was cout<<"Enter the name "\n"
then I used the line of input.

I think I had put a space after the \n, so it would have put a new line then a space. So, there is a possibilty that it might have thought the space place before was part of the input, thus not reading in anything after the space, thus the information I was trying to enter.