How to I hide text?

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fookenmonkey (3)
Im trying to create a hangman game witch im successful at that but one thing. I can't figure out how to make input not show just for one string. so this is what I have 
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     cout << "Welcome to Hangman!\n";
     cout << "Enter a word: ";
     string word;
     cin >> word;

So when I run it says 

Welcome to Hangman!
Enter a word: Hangman

I typed Hangman into the "Enter a word: " it shows the word I want the input to not show.

Sorry i put so much detail in this people usually say I need more so I listened

Thanks! :)
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guestgulkan (2942)
The hiding of characters is an OS thing and doesn't happen by default.
Depending on wheher you are using *nix or windows, here are some examples I pinched from
codeguru forum:


WINDOWS 
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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    HANDLE hStdin = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE); 
    DWORD mode = 0;
    GetConsoleMode(hStdin, &mode);
    SetConsoleMode(hStdin, mode & (~ENABLE_ECHO_INPUT));

    string s;
    getline(cin, s);

    cout << s << endl;
    return 0;
}//main



*NIX 
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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <termios.h>
#include <unistd.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    termios oldt;
    tcgetattr(STDIN_FILENO, &oldt);
    termios newt = oldt;
    newt.c_lflag &= ~ECHO;
    tcsetattr(STDIN_FILENO, TCSANOW, &newt);

    string s;
    getline(cin, s);

    cout << s << endl;
    return 0;
}//main
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fookenmonkey (3)
Ok ill try that and then reply if it works or not Thanks :)
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fookenmonkey (3)
It Works!
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Duthomhas (13292)
Neither version cleans up after itself. Make sure to restore the terminal state before you terminate. (I would restore it immediately after getting the word.)

SetConsoleMode(hStdin, mode);

tcsetattr(STDIN_FILENO, TCSANOW, &oldt);
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