reading strings in c++, compiling in c++

#include "pch.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
#include <string>
#include <cstring>
#include <sstream>
#include <istream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    std::string color, pluralNoun, celebrity;

    std::cout << "enter a color: ";
    std::getline(cin, color);  
    std::cout << "enter a plural noun: ";
    std::getline(cin, pluralNoun);
    std::cout << "enter a celebrity: ";
    std::getline(cin, celebrity);

    cout << "Roses are " << color << endl;
    cout << pluralNoun << "are blue" << endl;
    cout << "I love " <<celebrity <<endl;


    return 0;
}

Hallo developers..

To keep it short: I come from Java ..

is that enough? I already had enormous problems with reading the strings, and had to search about 50 pages for needed libraries. In addition, I have included in a statement the namespace std, and yet I get an error message when I remove std before the cout s.

"ConsoleApplication3.exe" (Win32): "D:\Users\nils\source\repos\ConsoleApplication3\Debug\ConsoleApplication3.exe" geladen. Symbole wurden geladen.
"ConsoleApplication3.exe" (Win32): "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll" geladen. Symbole wurden geladen.
"ConsoleApplication3.exe" (Win32): "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\kernel32.dll" geladen. Symbole wurden geladen.
"ConsoleApplication3.exe" (Win32): "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\KernelBase.dll" geladen. Symbole wurden geladen.
"ConsoleApplication3.exe" (Win32): "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcp140d.dll" geladen. Symbole wurden geladen.
"ConsoleApplication3.exe" (Win32): "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vcruntime140d.dll" geladen. Symbole wurden geladen.
"ConsoleApplication3.exe" (Win32): "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ucrtbased.dll" geladen. Symbole wurden geladen.
Der Thread 0x4d6c hat mit Code -1073741510 (0xc000013a) geendet.
Der Thread 0x4dc8 hat mit Code -1073741510 (0xc000013a) geendet.
Der Thread 0x486c hat mit Code -1073741510 (0xc000013a) geendet.
Das Programm "[2132] ConsoleApplication3.exe" wurde mit Code -1073741510 (0xc000013a) beendet.

Can anyone explain why this does not work, and if there are other ways to read the strings? As far as I can read consoles all required files were loaded (for the pdb file I used the visual studio server, dll I saved locally. (sry for the debugger, i am german, "geendet" means that it finished, not that there are any problems)

• Nils Drees -

If you just started learning c++ and using Visual Studio i would recommend that you create your project in this manner :

As the option says it'll create an empty project where you'll have to manually add header and cpp files in those:

Header file should go to the Header Folder and cpp file to the Source folder.

The problem you encountered was because when you created your new project you selected "Windows Console Application", by default Visual Studio will create the project including the pre-compiled header named "pch.h".

This header is useful in a bit larger projects, basically you should include in "pch.h" headers you will use very often in multiple files like:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

etc... And then you should include "pch.h" in cpp file at the very top.

Warning tho, this is not even the basics of the topic, but if you're only starting and trying things out i think it's going to be easier to deal with an empty project, but for later do some research on pre-compiled headers, they're very useful.

Also as other mentioned, try to avoid

using namespace std;

as much as possible

Hope this will help you for later.