Question

C++. I am writing a multidimensional array to store data; name, surname, account number of users. The array below does not print out the correct results.

Answer 1

plz help.

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main ()
{
char array1 [2][5];
char name[20];
char surname [20];

for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++ )
{
for ( int j = 0; j < 5; j++)
{
//reads entered name
cin.getline (name,20);
// assign entered name into the multi dimensional array
array1 [i][j] = name [j];
}
}

cout << endl;

cout << " contents of array " << endl;
// prints out the results of the multi dimensional array
for (int k = 0; k < 2; k++ )
{
for ( int m = 0; m < 5; m++)
{

cout<< array1 [k][m] << " " ;

}
cout<<endl;
}
}

Answer 2

Well, how large of a name are you putting in, because your buffers are very different sizes from the multi-dimensional array. Also, what are you doing to handle the nul character or new line. Those are two things I see off the top of my head.

Answer 3

i actually want to put data like " John Smith 0362546213". but i was testing with a name of 20 characters

Answer 4

You are not calling `getline` in the right place. It shouldn't be in the loop. Also, your array shouldn't be only 5 characters if you expect 20 character input.