Am I using the Input/Output Stream Library right? [closed]

Question

I am a newbie in C++ programming and I'm trying to use std:: because someone told me that is a good habit rather than putting in using namespace std; because it pollutes the global namespace. I'm not sure why std::cin >> name; from my code below produce an error no operator '>>' matches these operands below is the full source code.

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <ios>
#include <iostream>

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
    int x, y;
    std::string name;

    std::cin >> name;
    std::cin >> x;

    return 0;
}

Answer 1

You are just missing the definition of std::string.

Add

#include <string>

Note:

std::cin >> name; // Will read a space separated word.

This is fine for inputs of known format.
But when you are doing interactive programming with the user I personally find it better to get a line at a time:

std::getline(std::cin, name);

Then you can error check to see if he entered two words or one etc.