c++ read into c-style string one char at a time?

in c++ id like to read input into a c-style string one character at a time. how do you do this without first creating a char array with a set size (you don't know how many chars the user will enter). And since you can't resize the array, how is this done? I was thinking something along these lines, but this does not work.

char words[1];
int count = 0;

char c;
while(cin.get(c))
{
    words[count] = c;
    char temp[count+1];
    count++;
    words = temp;
    delete[] temp;
}