Y'ello Paul!
11 Apr 97, All had to endure Paul C Purgett's ramblings (shown below).
 PCP> I recently purchased Visual C++ 1.0 (Windows).  I was wondering
 PCP> how to enter, say, a sentence, and have the program recall the
 PCP> sentence.
Here's something to chew on:  
/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
   Simple I/O by Craig A McKay (c) 1997 McMoose Systems
 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
#include 
const int MAX_BUF = 256 ;
int main(void)
{
       char inbuf[MAX_BUF] ;  // Buffer space for sentence
       cout << "Enter sentence: " << flush ; // Ask for input
       cin.get(inbuf, MAX_BUF, '\n') ;       // Get up to MAX_BUF chars
                                             // terminated by newline
       cout << "You typed: " << inbuf << endl << flush ; // Echo text
       return(1) ;
}
I suppose, thought, if we're going to call it "C++", we'd better make it
Object Oriented and have at least one class...
/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
   EasyIO by Craig A McKay (c) 1997 McMoose Systems
 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
#include 
#include 
const int MAX_BUF = 256 ;
class EasyIO
{
private:
        char the_sentence[MAX_BUF] ;  // Buffer space for sentence
public:
        EasyIO() { strcpy(the_sentence, "") ; }
        int getSentence()
        {
                // Ask for input
                cout << "Enter sentence: " << flush ;
                // Get up to MAX_BUF chars terminated by newline
                cin.get(the_sentence, MAX_BUF, '\n') ;
                return ( strlen(the_sentence) ) ;
        }
        void putSentence()
        {
                cout << "You typed: " << the_sentence <<
                        endl << flush ;
        }
} ;
int main(void)
{
        EasyIO eio ;
        if (eio.getSentence() > 0) eio.putSentence() ;
        return(1) ;
}
There ya go!   Mind you, I've just read your message again... and noticed the
VisualC++ part, which means you don't want to know any of my rabid ramblings. 
I
used VC++ 1.0 at work, it's an older version, but perfectly useable.  You
probably want to take your sentence from a Textbox or something like that do
you?  If you can cut'n'paste you could try the above provided there's a 
console
or something similar.  Hmm.  Well, just tryin' to help.  :)
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