Data type while inputting the string

#1

Here, the data type of ch is defined as char and we give a long input when running the code.

As char reads single characters, how will this code read the long input (say ‘aabbcccd’) as the user inputs just once?

#2

hey @sonalbera can you share the screenshot of code or the code itself from where you are taking reference too, so that i can clear your doubt,

#4

I’m talking about the code for Queue-08- First non-repeating character implementation.

in the video at line 12, 13, bhaiya initializes as :-:

char ch;
cin>>ch;

After building the code, he inserts a string like ‘aabcb…’ .
So my doubt was that as char can read a single character, how does it read this string by itself as the user inputs the string altogether just once??

Video link;- https://online.codingblocks.com/app/player/150556/content/153674/6647/lecture

#5

Hey @sonalbera i have seen the video. You will see that we have taken input in ch , and yes you are right it will contain only one character element not the entire string. So what are we doing is taking single character element one at a time until character element equals to ‘.’ that is mentioned in while condition. So we are not taking whole string in char a , but we are taking one element at a time in char a. Hope this will clear your doubt :slight_smile:

#6

One last thing…char can store a single character. So when the user enters the long string, how does it store that till ‘.’ is found?

#7

You are not storing string in just one go, you are storing it using only a single single character

#8

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