Ask AI: Suppose that name is variable of type string. What is the effect of the following statement? getline(cin, name);?

The statement `getline(cin, name);` is used in C++ to read an entire line of text from the standard input (usually the keyboard) into the string variable `name`. The `getline()` function reads characters until it encounters a newline ('\n') character or end-of-file (EOF). The newline character isn't included in the string. This statement allows you to accept input containing spaces, which is not possible with the `cin >> name;` statement, as `cin` stops reading at the first whitespace encountered.