declaring cin.getline() vs getline()

[yana]

what is the difference between the cin.getline() function and getline() function?

[sicarie]

What is the difference between the cin.getline() function and getline() function?

In one you explicitly declare the cin stream.

[RedSon]

Nothing except one version you explicitly call it on the cin stream whereas the other is implicit.

[yana]

Can you initialize C++ string from C-string? and
Can you initialize C-string from C++ string?

[sicarie]

Can you initialize C++ string from C-string? and
Can you initialize C-string from C++ string?

I have merged these threads, and changed the title to better explain the problem

[Ganon11]

I'm pretty sure you can create a C++ string (std::string) using a cstring as its parameter - something like:

char mycstr[20] = "Hello Guys!\0";
std::string mystr(mycstr);

As for making a cstring from an std::string, there may be a function within std::string to return the character array, or you could simply create your own by iterating through the characters of the string and assigning them to an element in a cstring.

[lqdeffx]

this function will only work copying to a char*, NOT to a string data type

strcpy(char* destination,const char* source)