how to differentiate 1 word or much than 1 word

[odavilar]

hi, i'm trying to do this:

string x;
cin>>x;

if (x is one word){
something
}else{
something
}

how can i differentiate between a word or a phrase.

thanks for your help

[horace1]

is a word delimited by space characters? if so

string x;
cin>>x;

reads up to the next whitespace (spaces and newlines) so you will always read words. If you wish to read a line of text use getline()
http://www.cppreferenc e.com/cppstring/getline.html

you can then see if there is a space charcater in the string using find()
http://www.cppreferenc e.com/cppstring/index.html