Count characters

Question

i'm trying to make that the 'sizeof' function counts the size of the variable with user asigned value. The following code don't work

#include<iostream>
#include<string>
using namespace std;

int main()

{
int text = new int;
cin >> text;

cout << sizeof(text);
return 0;

}

Answer 1

// Count characters
#include<iostream>
#include<string>
using namespace std;

int main()

{
string text;
cin >> text;

cout << text.size();
return 0;

}